copa del rey - 1/4 finals

well then its time for the quarter finals . No Real Madrid now of course.

barcelona must be your obvious favourites.

valencia vs atletico , villarreal vs barcelona the tie's of the round. will valencia be absolute $h!t or pull out a decent performance.???
will villareal return to playing good football after their hamering of valencia at the weekend. They will need a good performance at home because i doubt they will win in the camp nou.

Matches



Getafe CF RCD Mallorca
Wednesday Jan 30, 08 RCD Mallorca Getafe CF i
Wednesday Jan 23, 08 Getafe CF RCD Mallorca i


Valencia CF Atletico Madrid
Wednesday Jan 30, 08 Atletico Madrid Valencia CF i
Wednesday Jan 23, 08 Valencia CF Atletico Madrid i


Racing Santander Athletic Bilbao
Wednesday Jan 30, 08 Athletic Bilbao Racing Santander
Thursday Jan 24, 08 Racing Santander Athletic Bilbao


Villarreal CF FC Barcelona
Wednesday Jan 30, 08 FC Barcelona Villarreal CF i
Thursday Jan 24, 08 Villarreal CF FC Barcelona


set to be some good ties.
thoughts from anyone??

it's "rey"

But Valencia-Atléti should be a good match. I expect Valencia to win the first leg.

Tomorrow I am just hoping we will draw, Villarreal is always tough for us.

I think any of the teams left could win it really, with maybe the exception of Athletic. Getafe are coming good, Mallorca can give anyone problems on their day. Valencia do have good players even if the club is in chaos. Atletico have been right up there all season, same with Villarreal. Racing are solid defensively too.

Getafe, Atletico, Racing, and Villarreal for the semis is my prediction.

Getafe leading Mallorca by 1-0 (de la red)

merci changed it to "rey"

valencia 1-0 up due to a david silva goal.
motta has already been sent off for atletico...

Motta..such a waste.. he is really talented but just not professional.. Good to see Silva scoring again.

Anyone know the teams?

VALENCIA: Hildebrand, Caneira, Albiol, Helguera, Moretti, Marchena, Baraja, Ever Banega, Vicente, Silva y Villa.

ATLETICO: Falcón, Valera, Perea, Pablo, Pernía, Motta, Cléber, Luis García, Maxi, Agüero y Mista.

valencia:

Hildebrand
Moretti
Helguera
Albiol
Caniera
Vicente
Baraja
Banega
Marchena
David Silva
David Villa

cheers guys.

strong sides from both which is good.

so is this on tv or?

im taking my eye off the score now. as i am going to watch the delayed kick off at 10 pm..

skysports 2 my apologys

Valencia won 1-0 with a goal from Silva and Getafe also beat Mallorca 1-0 in their first leg. Big match tonight, with us travelling to El Madrigal, where Rijkaard has never won (the only time we've won in Villarreal in the Rijkaard era was when he was sick and not on the bench)

Didn't see the games but apparently Koeman refused to risk anything in attack after Valencia went up 1-0 even though there were still 60 minutes to go and were playing at home

Torrente wrote:Didn't see the games but apparently Koeman refused to risk anything in attack after Valencia went up 1-0 even though there were still 60 minutes to go and were playing at home

He brought in a new player (Maduro) to ease him in, seems like a normal thing to do to me...

Koeman is still a c**t though

At half time - Villarreal vs. Barcelona is tied at 0-0.

Villarreal: Lopez, Angel, Godin, Cygan, Capdevila, Bruno, Josico, Cazorla, Pires, Nihat, Rossi

Barcelona: Valdes, Zambrotta, Thuram, Milito, Silvinho, Marquez, Xavi, Deco, Iniesta, Dos Santos, Henry

Racing beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0.

We are playing for the draw.. eventhough I know it is a two-legged affair, I feel ashamed...

Messi on for Giovani as expected...

Bojan on for a Henry.. (who looked like he might have pulled something)

A dull match, where Villarreal sits back and tries to counter and we just pass the ball around endlessly.

Gudjohnsen is still on the bench for a last push forward late in the game. Lets hope for your sakes that the Henry injury isn't lengthy.

There's a salsa band playing in the stadium somewhere

We always get loads of injuries.. I am just sick of it always being strikers, or always midfielders...

If Henry is injured then we a truly in trouble.. We will end up with an attack of a midfielder, an 18 year old winger and a 17 year old.. Not really the recipe for goals galore.

Messi tried a "gambete"... and got a yellow

You can take the kid out of Argentina, but not the Argentinean out of the kid.

0-0 Good result, and we kept Villarreal under control for all but the last 10 minutes or so... Valdés MOTM or Cygan..

Missed the match but from the highlights it seems it was an open match with both goalkeepers doing well. SPORT is going ga-ga over the 2nd half performance.

2nd legs start tonight then.

Wednesday 30th January 2008

Atletico De Madrid (0) _ vs _ (1) Valencia CF

the tie of the night no doubt. after both losing in the league at the weekend. will madrid turn the 1-0 defecit around at home. or will valencia come strong. ?


Mallorca (0) _ vs _ (1) Getafe

another intresting tie. as the away team takes a 1-0 lead into the 2nd leg.



Thursday 31st January 2008


athletic bilbao (0) vs (2) racing santander

odds have to be against bilbao in this one


Barcelona (0) vs (0) Villarreal

equal into the 2nd leg. you have to fancy barca in nou camp though.

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco

heres your line ups.

Atletico de Madrid
Manager: Javier Aguirre

Falcón
Valera
Perea
Eler
Antonio López
García Escudero
Cléber Santana
Rodríguez
Garcia
Forlán
Agüero


Valencia
Manager: Ronald Koeman

Hildebrand
Miguel
Albiol
Helguera
Moretti
Marchena
Maduro
Joaquín
Banega
Mata
Villa

own goal from miguel 1-0 atletico on the night.


and now he has got himself a yellow card

A "normal" 4-3-3 from Koeman, but Valencia already losing on the night and the tie level on aggreggate.

its 2-0 now aguero has scored. going from bad to worse.