Real Madrid suffer nightmare Arsenal preparation thanks to forgotten Liverpool star

Real Madrid have suffered a blow ahead of their quarter-final clash with after produced an upset at the Bernabeu. are set to face Arsenal in the first leg at the Emirates on Tuesday and would have been hoping to pick up an important win over Valencia on Saturday.

A win would have seen them move level with at the top of LaLiga and named a strong team, with , and all starting. However, Valencia picked up a shock 2-1 win thanks to a late goal from Hugo Duro.

Madrid almost got off to a perfect start when Cesar Tarrega brought down Mbappe and conceded a penalty. Vinicius, though, was unable to convert the resulting spot kick as future goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili saved a poor effort.

Mouctar Diakhaby then gave Valencia the lead, before Vinicius finally found the back of the net in the second half to level the scores. Duro then stunned Madrid with an injury time winner as Carlos Corberan's side claimed their first victory at the Bernabeu since 2008.

"It's harder to win the league now, but we have to do things well until the end," Ancelotti admitted in his post-match press conference. "We have far fewer options. We'll fight until the end, for sure.

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"We have missed several [penalties]: Bellingham, Mbappe, and Vini. I tried to give him confidence, but he missed. It's not a physical problem or a lack of football. We created a lot of chances. We lacked a bit of effectiveness.

"It's not hard for our opponents to score against us at this point. Complaining is useless. It's not an attitude problem, not at all. This isn't a deserved defeat.

"Could things have been done better? Yes, but it's not a lack of attitude. We deserved to win, but it wasn't because of the small details."

Arsenal, meanwhile, dropped points as they on Saturday thanks to goals from and Iliman Ndiaye. However, Gunners boss was that Ndiaye converted.

"We were in very much control of the match, we didn't concede anything at all," Arteta told . "Then we didn't deal with the direct play and out of nothing the referee decides to give a penalty.

"I've seen it 15 times and for me it's never a penalty. If that's a penalty then O'Brien should be off. Because he is on a yellow card, he stops David [Raya] playing fast and a big counter-attack.

"That should be a second yellow card. They are very good at what they do. They are looking to create chaos.

"We gave so many silly fouls away which leads to a set-piece. You have to win the game, that's unfortunate. We have no margin that's so clear."

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