Luck copera returns to smile at Alcoyano

‘Déjà vu’ in the draw for the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey. Once again, the fat man with the drums and balls fell in Alcoy, where Real Madrid returned just a year later to El Collao, the place of the crime. Alcoyano’s morale will be measured again, the white executioner last season in the KO tournament after a tie that was decided in extra time with a local comeback after Militao’s initial goal, insufficient to prevent the sinking of Zidane’s men.

The veteran goalkeeper José Juan and company, the last representatives of those usual unexpected heroes of the Cup, will once again challenge the Madrid giant after leaving Levante on the road and a draw in which Linares and Rayo Majadahonda were the other great winners, Well, they will face Barça and Atlético, respectively. It so happens that Cerro del Espino, home of the Majariego group, is also a place for mattress training.

For Atlético Mancha Real, the Cinderella of this edition after leaving Granada on the road and the only survivor of the Second Federation – the fourth category of Spanish football after the restructuring of last season – fortune gave the former king of Athletic Cups as an adversary . He was therefore the last of the lucky ones to face one of the four teams that will compete in the Spanish Super Cup in January, which is why they make their debut in this round of the competition.

Finally, Atlético Baleares, the fifth and last of the teams that are still in contention and do not belong to professional football, was paired with Celta. The people from Vigo will arrive in Palma warned by the resounding 5-0 with which the Balearics dispatched a Primera like Getafe in the second round. Not in vain is it one of the most powerful projects of the First Federation and a clear candidate for promotion to Second.

The remaining eleven heats will measure a Second against a First in the stadium of the first, as expected by the composition of the draw drums. In this way, Valladolid and Betis, Almería and Elche, Mirandés and Rayo Vallecano, Cartagena and Valencia, Sporting and Villarreal, Eibar and Mallorca, Fuenlabrada and Cádiz, Leganés and Real Sociedad, Girona and Osasuna, Zaragoza and Seville and Ponferradina and Spanish. All matches will be played between January 4, 5 and 6.