• Chronicle: Real Madrid bleeds out from a penalty

"It was a bad game, a bad day, everything has happened to us. There are no excuses."

Zidane

did not hesitate to recognize

the gaps that made Real Madrid leave the Mestalla thrashed.

"We started well for half an hour but with the draw, the dynamics changed and we got complicated. We have to be stronger defensively," he admitted.

Of the four defenders he lined up, three made hands and the fourth scored at his own goal.

Even so, the Frenchman would repeat eleven.

"I do not regret the one I have chosen. They are all Real Madrid players and must give up," he settled without ceasing to point out as the head of the defeat.

"I am the one who has to look for solutions within the party."

Mestalla's is the seventh consecutive game in which the whites conceded at least one goal this season and also Zidane's biggest win as a coach in the league.

The previous one was against Ajax in the Champions League (1-4).

Neither had Madrid ever been punished with three penalties in a game before in La Liga history.

It is not usual.

In fact, it had not happened since 1996. Carlos Soler can boast that with his

hat trick, he

equaled Di Stéfano and Peternac to score a triplet from the penalty spot, the madridista did against Celta in 1958, and the former Valladolid player, against Oviedo in 1996. Real Madrid's extravagant night at the Mestalla.

Courtois: "A day to forget"

Thibaut Courtois finished very touched after having conceded four goals.

"It is a day to forget. We must leave it behind when we return from the national teams and we cannot let it affect us," said the goalkeeper, who justified the defeat for having arrived three of the four local goals "from penalties" and ensure that in the another had a dose of "bad luck."

"We started well, but we lacked a bit of going up after the first goal and we fell a little behind," he lamented before the Movistar La Liga microphones.

The Belgian goalkeeper also said that they are receiving more goals for pressing higher.

"I think we have to go back to the union a bit after the lockdown and the beginning of the season," he said.

In any case, he insisted on the difficulty of overcoming three penalties and complained that he had repeated the first after he had stopped it.

"I don't know why he does it," he complained.

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