Tikteknu: clip summarizing today's events in sport, 24.4 (Sport1)
With four league games in a week and a half, just before the cup final and half of the Champions League final, Real Madrid knew that the upcoming games were an opportunity to divide forces in light of the big gap from Barcelona.
Yesterday (Tuesday) against Girona they paid dearly for it with a 4:2 loss that stunned all of Spain.
Host striker Valentin Castianos celebrated a historic hat-trick, becoming the first to score four goals in one game against the Blancos since Robert Lewandowski a decade ago in a Dortmund uniform.
The striker was the first to score a hat-trick or more against the European champions since Carlos Soler in 2020, but the difference is that while Soler needed three penalties to reach three goals, Castianos didn't need a penalty kick.
The 2:4 of the Catalans there confirms that Girona is the black sheep of Real Madrid.
In six games against the Blancos in the league, Girona won three times and lost only once, and in percentage terms this is the best record in the history of any Spanish team against the Blancos.
In addition, she also manages to be particularly productive in meetings against the Empire, with 2.13 goals per game, a figure that also places her in the historical first place with the best average.
This is what a black sheep looks like.
Girona's numbers against Real Madrid
Carlo Ancelotti did not feel sorry for his players when he said that they were all bad, but it seems that in Madrid they managed to find a scapegoat or a senior culprit - Andrei Lunin.
The second goalkeeper got a chance between the posts in the absence of Thibaut Courtois who rested, and did not live up to expectations.
"He kicked the goal five times and he conceded four. The responsibility is not only on him, but he could have prevented the second and fourth goals," it was written in Spain.
The Ukrainian would like to extend his contract in the Spanish capital and the management is open to this possibility, but the professional team sees things differently.
The coaching staff has doubts about the goalkeeper and they are not surprised by his ability.
According to them, he has a lot of difficulty improving aspects of his game.
"Courtois has no replacement" stated in "AS", and besides the fact that he recorded only four clean sheets in 17 games, it was written that his future at the club will be examined this summer.
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