29 ‘ Rayo grows in the last minutes and goes down to Barça. As long as Koeman’s doesn’t bite the pressure, the picture changes.
19 ‘ ‘PAL !! Near Barcelona to break the zero, great center left Firpo who finished De Jong and the ball hit the metal.
15 ‘ Messi touches the ball infrequently and is not being important for now.
8 ‘ Trincao falls inside the area, but it is not a penalty. The defender touches every ball.
3 ‘ Barcelona takes the lead in the first minutes of the match.
THE MATCH STARTS IN VALLECAS!
CONFIRMED ALIGNMENTS:
Rayo Vallecano: Quintela, Aguado, Jorge, Navarro, Nacho, Molina, Boigues, Kevin, Rueda, Carles, Sanchez
Barcelona: Neto; Mingueza, Araujo, Lenglet, Junior; Busquets, De Jong, Riqui Puig; Trincao, Messi and Griezmann.
Rayo Vallecano (2nd division) will look for the feat this Wednesday against Barcelona in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, in which Alcoy wants to keep giving the surprise.
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“It was one of the worst teams we could play and what you want is to have more options to move forward. Obviously, we will fight it,” Rayo coach Andoni Iraola said on Friday, when he learned of the match.
The Madrid team, which eliminated in the previous round of the KO tournament in Elche, will receive with several casualties a Barcelona, which will try not to suffer again as it did in sixteenth.
The Barça team ended up winning 2-0 on Thursday in overtime to the modest Cornellà (2nd division B), who had eliminated Atlético de Madrid in the previous round.
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“We have to win the game before, we have had enough opportunities to score, we lack effectiveness, it can’t be for a team like Barcelona,” said after the game, Barça coach Ronald Koeman.
On Wednesday, Barça will go to Vallecas, a district of Madrid, more lively after their 2-0 victory over Elche on Sunday to regain third place in the league.
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The executioner of Real Madrid in the previous round, the modest Alcoyano, one of the two survivors of the 2nd division B, equivalent to the third category of Spanish football, will receive Athletic Bilbao on Thursday.
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