Thursday, March 28

Elche will host Madrid in the Cup and three days later they will visit the Bernabéu in the League



Elche wanted to play at home and, with his mouth surely smaller, receive a big one. And sometimes wishes are fulfilled. From three decaffeinated previous qualifying rounds, Elche have gone on to compete against one of their most anticipated rivals always in the city, Real Madrid. The knockout stages of the Copa del Rey, which the Elche team had not reached since 2015, have been the phase chosen by Diosa Fortuna to bring the meringues back to the Martínez Valero stadium.

Here, the club already managed to close the best box office of the season at the end of October in the League. Specifically, 68% of the stands were occupied. In just over two months, Real Madrid, led by Modric, Vinicius and Benzemá, will once again step on the green-franj lawn in a single-game tie. Whoever wins will pass. With extension and penalties in the event of a tie. And, for the first time in the course of the cupbearer’s championship, with external support for the referees, the popular VAR.

The match will be held, as confirmed by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), organizer of the round, between Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 January, at a time to be determined, in which the clubs will have to agree .

Elche will host Madrid in the Cup and three days later they will visit the Bernabéu in the League


For that same Wednesday, the LaLiga Elche-Villarreal match was scheduled, which will not be able to remain on that date and will probably be advanced to Saturday 15 or Sunday 16. That weekend there are no League games as the Super Cup is being played. In fact, other Cup matches in which there are no teams involved in the four-way tournament (alongside Madrid are Barça, Atlético de Madrid and Athletic Club), will be played on the aforementioned days.

Also Read  "The regime continues to violate human rights in Cuba in the absence of a global consensus that condemns it"

For example, Mallorca-Espanyol will be held on Saturday 15 at four in the afternoon. Sporting de Gijón and Cádiz, on the one hand, and Girona and Rayo Vallecano, on the other, will be played at 18:30 on the same day.

That same day, at 9:30 p.m., Betis and Sevilla will play their particular cup derby, while Atlético Baleares and Valencia will play Sunday at 12 noon.

The round of 16 have two other interesting duels. The one that will star Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid, and Athletic Club-FC Barcelona, ​​who will reissue the last Cup final. Both matches, on a date yet to be determined, such as that of Elche, a club that can consider that “it has won the lottery” in this draw for the Cup, held yesterday morning at the Madrid headquarters of the RFEF, since it has achieved play at home and do it against a great, the team that usually fills the Martínez Valero stadium the most.

And, apart from the Cup, Elche will play against Real Madrid three or four days after playing at Martínez Valero, but this time in a match belonging to LaLiga Santander. The franjiverdes will visit the Santiago Bernabéu on Sunday, January 23 at 4:15 p.m. Therefore, two games between franjiverdes and meringues in a little more or less three days. The first could take Elche to the quarterfinals of the Cup. The second, move Francisco’s team away from the relegation places in case of surprise.


www.informacion.es

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *