Wrap it up any way you want. Tuesday night's Copa del Rey semi-final at the Bernabelle

has landed Aletco Madrid with a gigantic opportunity to rescue something from a promising season that now

just about looks in tatters. Real Madrid has expected, came through, beat Real Sociedad

and therefore there isn't simply an opportunity for it lettie to dispatch Barcelona tonight

and head towards the final of the Copa del Rey in the Olympic Stadium

then in Cartuchas on April 26th, yeah, it's just round the corner.

It's an opportunity to face their

hated city rivals, their noisy neighbours, Real Madrid, and an opportunity to put right that bizarre,

barely believable moment where Julian Alvarez scored from the penalty spot in the shootout in the

Champions League, yet was ruled to have done an assassin's double tap on the ball.

The penalty was disallowed. Madrid went through and controversy ensued. The idea that it's an opportunity for vengeance, an opportunity to win a final against Real Madrid, something they haven't done since the European Super Cup for vengeance. An opportunity to win a final against Realmerid, something they haven't done since the European

Super Cup of 2018.

An opportunity to resurrect something is attractive, should propel them onwards tonight at

the Vettipolitano.

But they were looking so promising and now they look weak. They look dishevelled and confused.

Out of the Champions League as I described, yeah, alive against Pasona, with a chance of knocking the league leaders out.

But floundering in La Liga, three weeks ago, They were point off the top, they were ahead of Real Madrid,

but they've consistently lost,

get half a drop points against the Spaniel,

thrashed by Barcelona.

And after that latest dropping on points at Espanol at the weekend,

Jan Oblack spoke to the Liga television's Carlos Ponte.

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