The 15-time Champions League winners will be eager to erase those painful memories with a strong start to their first Copa del Rey campaign under Xabi Alonso. The team received a favorable round of 32 draw, matching up with Talavera, who sit just one point off the bottom of their section of the Primera Federación.

Real Madrid will clash heads with Talavera at the Estadio Municipal El Prado on Wednesday night as they look to secure a good result on the road in the Copa del Rey. Los Blancos managed to earn a

Deportivo Alavés faces Real Madrid at the Estadio Mendizorrotza in Vitoria-Gasteiz on Sunday, Dec. 14. Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. CET local time, 3 p.m. ET or 12 p.m. PT in the US and Canada, 8 p.m. GMT in the UK and a 7 a.m. AEDT kickoff in Australia on Monday morning.

Real Madrid get their Copa del Rey campaign underway in the Round of 32 against third-tier Talavera. Los Blancos last won the competitions in the 2022-23 season, the first time in nine seasons.

When all factors seemed to be against them, Real Madrid pulled off an impressive win over Deportivo Alaves at the weekend to get back on track and hand Xabi Alonso another chance to save his job.Two

Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has thrown his full weight behind Florentino Perez in the ongoing war over the Negreira case, insisting that the lack of punishment for Barcelona is viewed with total shock across the rest of Europe.

It has been confirmed today, on Tuesday, that a Real Madrid first-team midfielder is in the FIFA Team of the Year for 2025.

Xabi Alonso may have just bought himself a few more days as Real Madrid's manager with a 2-1 win at Alaves on Sunday, even if the stylistic clashes that have loomed large over his employment status were still very much on display.

Rodrygo secured Real Madrid a crucial 2-1 victory over Deportivo Alaves on Sunday in LaLiga, ending a dismal run of form and keeping them within four points of leaders Barcelona.

But the club’s 2025 got considerably worse nine days ago when a stand at their Tehtaan kentta stadium burned to the ground. It is the second time in the venue’s 91-year history that it has been ravaged by fire, following an inferno that destroyed the main stand in 1994. Fortunately, no human casualties were reported.