As per Diario AS<\/a>, head coach Alvaro Arbeloa spoke on the match to the media, as he took full responsibility for the defeat on his first game in charge.<\/p>\n \u201cAlways, at this club, a draw is bad, a tragedy. It\u2019s painful and I\u2019m sure all our fans are hurt. We know the difficulty, we saw it against Talavera. I\u2019m responsible and guilty. As for the line-up, the changes. I can only thank the players. And to recover for Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cAt yesterday\u2019s press conference I said it. I\u2019m not afraid of failure. And I understand anyone who wants to describe this defeat as a failure. Failure is on the road to success. It will make me better. It will make us all better. I\u2019m not afraid of failure. I\u2019ve failed many times in my life, with tougher eliminations than this one. To prepare for the next match with the utmost dedication.\u201d<\/p>\n Arbeloa decided against calling up the likes of Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe for the match, but despite the defeat, he believes this call was correct.<\/p>\n \u201cI was convinced that the list was the right one. The players that were there were a great team. I have a great squad, of talented players, differentials. With a new coach\u2019s day it\u2019s hard to do everything I\u2019ve asked of them. We have many players to recover to their maximum physical level.\u201d<\/p>\n Arbeloa was also asked how he would \u201cexplain this defeat\u201d to Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.<\/p>\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t need an explanation, he knows more about all this than I do. He knows what the history of this club is. We are a winning club. We have had painful defeats and here we only look forward.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Real Madrid manager Alvaro Arbeloa blames himself for Copa del Rey exit<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid have been knocked out of the Copa del Rey, having been defeated by Albacete in their Round of 16 tie. Goals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jefte-scaled.jpg\")
Arbeloa defends squad list<\/h2>\n
Arbeloa: I don\u2019t need to explain defeat to Florentino Perez<\/h2>\n