Real Madrid director Emilio Butragueno has lamented his club’s pairing with Sevilla in the last sixteen of the Copa Del Rey, which was drawn on Friday.
Madrid will face last season’s beaten finalists over two legs to win a place in the last eight of this year’s competition, with the second leg at Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan arriving just four days before Zinedine Zidane’s side are scheduled to play Sevilla in a league clash at the same stadium.
"They are the worst possible opponents and it will be necessary for us to have maximum concentration for those ties," said Butragueno immediately after the draw was made.
"We will have to prepare very well for the first leg because we know how difficult it is to play at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
"The home crowd is always enthusiastic and fired up and will demand a high level of performance from their players."