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Madrid will offer Cheryshev explanation on Thursday

Los Blancos's players can't quite believe what has happened, while the club plans to reveal how such a mistake was able to happen in the coming hours.

Real Madrid is swimming in a sea of phone calls, messages, questions and explanations on Thursday - all because on Wednesday Los Blancos got themselves into a nonsensical situation by playing Denis Cheryshev in the Copa del Rey game against Cadiz.

Once the game was in progress it became public knowledge that he should have been suspended due to an accumulation of bookings in the same competition while on loan at Villarreal last season - Madrid acknowledged as much after the match at the Ramon de Carranza.