Real Madrid's match against Real Mallorca ended with an unexpected twist as 20-year-old Jacobo Ramon scored in the final moments, allowing Madrid to postpone their league defeat for at least a short time. The game occurred under gloomy circumstances, including the imminent departure of manager Carlo Ancelotti and missing players. Despite this moment of excitement, Madrid remains far behind Barcelona in the league standings and is ultimately facing an uncertain future, with a managerial transition on the horizon.
It came late, very late on a grey, wet Wednesday night in front of perhaps 30,000 empty seats. It came with a manager whose departure was announced two days earlier and a dozen players missing.
This may have done no more than delay the inevitable and no one truly believes in a miracle, but suddenly there was a roar, a release, some life at the Santiago Bernabeu.
The statements will follow immediately: Madrid will at last officially announce what the Brazilian Football Confederation already has that Ancelotti is leaving for the only job in world football bigger.
It came with a manager whose departure was announced two days earlier and a dozen players missing, at the end of an evening that had felt empty for a long time.
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