{"id":245195,"date":"2026-01-15T01:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245195\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:03:22","slug":"real-madrid-dumped-out-of-copa-del-rey-by-albacete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245195\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid dumped out of Copa del Rey by Albacete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Real Madrid boss Alvaro Arbeloa suffered an embarrassing defeat in his first match in charge as second-tier Albacete produced a stunning Copa del Rey upset.<\/p>\n<p>Jefte Betancor struck a brilliant winner deep into stoppage time at Estadio Carlos Belmonte as Albacete snatched a dramatic 3-2 victory in the round-of-16 tie.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third time the hosts had led on the night and substitute Betancor&#8217;s second of the game and this time Real could not fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Javi Villar opened the scoring for the team 17th in the Segunda Division after 42 minutes but Real replied before the break through Franco Mastantuono.<\/p>\n<p>Betancor thought he had won it when he came off the bench to put his side ahead for a second time eight minutes from time but Gonzalo Garcia levelled again in the first minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was not enough to spare Real&#8217;s embarrassment as Betancor had the final say from a late breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>It was a dismal start for Arbeloa, who succeeded the sacked Xabi Alonso on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Real Madrid boss Alvaro Arbeloa suffered an embarrassing defeat in his first match in charge as second-tier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-245195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}