03/02/2021 18:48 THIS
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Good afternoon!! Levante and Villarreal are eager to make history. The Ciutat de València hosts the most important Valencian derby of the season: a match that is worth a few Copa del Rey semifinals. ORna round that granotas and groguets have only reached once in their history. Little more to add.
Those of Paco Lopez They arrive with morale through the roof. Two consecutive victories away from home against Valladolid in the last 16 of that competition and against Real Madrid in the league, have catapulted the options of a grown team. With his two scorers, Morales and Roger, with a sharp spear, the challenge of taking on Villarreal, a team created for greater achievements, is superlative.
The Cup has never been a boat trip for Villarreal. The European crushes in the Champions and Europa League (Arruabarrena’s goal against Inter, the draws at Old Trafford, the triumph in extremis against Liverpool …) occupy places of honor in the yellow imagination, but the memory of the Cup it only serves to recall hardships: the historic win conceded before andl Poli Ejido, the various eliminations at the hands of lower-category teams, the opportunity lost last season at the Mirandés court … Only the Copa del Rey semifinal in 2015 makes the submarine half smile, but they stayed at the gates of the semifinal after being clearly surpassed by the Barça and above Bruno Soriano it broke badly and was never the same again.
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