Summary clip of today's events in sports, 5.1 (Sport1)
After the last 32 games in the King's Cup, today (Saturday) the 16th round in the Spanish league continues with an intriguing battle between Real Madrid and Villarreal.
The cycle started on Friday with a 0:1 of Celta Vigo over Alca, and then Cádiz surprised Valencia with the same result.
Later tonight: Shawn Weissman's Valladolid will be hosted by Mallorca.
Leads Real Madrid's attack at Villarreal.
Benzema (Photo: GettyImages, Eric Alonso)
Villarreal - Real Madrid
Villarreal returned to its home stadium "La Ceramica" and beat Valencia 1:2 in the return match from the World Cup break to the league, and after also winning both of its games in the cup en route to the round of 16, it will meet another team that has not yet stumbled since the return to activity - none other than the champion Real Madrid who won 0:2 in Valladolid on Friday last week and in the Girda Cup 0:1 against the small and humble Casarno.
Villarreal will also miss the injured Giovano Lo Celso and Frances Coquelan this time.
On the other hand, Carlo Ancelotti brought back most of the stars who rested in the middle of the week, including goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and Luka Modric, who started for the first time since the World Cup.
With the injured Dani Carvajal out of the squad, Eder Militao will take his place at right-back with Antonio Rudiger in central defense with David Alaba.
Federico Valverde, Vinicius and Karim Benzema were placed up front.
Even before the game, the two teams learned that they will meet in the round of 16 of the Spanish Cup, which will also be hosted at the home of the Yellows.
The yellow submarine did not lose to the Blancos last season - both meetings ended in 0:0, and in fact they have not been beaten at home by Real Madrid since February 2017. In total, in the last ten meetings, Real Madrid won only three times, Villarreal won once in January 2018 and the rest of the games ended in a tie
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Minute 5: Moreno sent a flat cross towards Coughlan, who almost scored a great goal with a backheel while turning, but it was stopped by the crossbar.
Minute 14: Benzema took control of a ball at the opening of the box after a short mix-up, and shot a high ball with his left foot that did not find the frame.
21st minute: Benzema released Militau wonderfully on the right wing and should have received it back, but the Brazilian chose to kick and was pushed to the corner instead of passing to the striker who was alone in the middle.
Successfully passed an important underground battle.
Salta Vigo players (Photo: Reuters)
Elche - Salta Vigo 1:0
Celta Vigo stopped a streak of eight rounds in the league without a win and after about three months took three points at the expense of the table lock, who remained without a win this season in the league and with only four points in their balance.
Iago Aspes decided the match in the sixth minute in favor of the Galicians who now opened a gap of four points from the red line.
The host also remained with ten players in extra time following the dismissal of Pedro Biggs in the 90th+2nd minute.
Another Valencia crash.
Cavani (Photo: GettyImages, Manuel Queimadelos)
Valencia - Cadiz 1:0
The bats came back from the break to lose 2:1 in the regional derby against Villarreal from a goal in the 88th minute, but in the cup they had no difficulty against La Nucia from the third division, a game in which Edinson Cavani was rested, as well as Jose Gaya.
The two stars returned to Gennaro Gattuso's 11, but the bats fell behind very early with a goal by Ruben Alcaras in the 9th minute and in fact it was a goal that decided the match, because all the attempts of the host to come back came to naught and she lost to the one who was ranked before last in the evening The game has now jumped over the red line.
In fact it was the fifth match in a row in which Cadiz did not lose to Valencia in the league.
Another opportunity in the lineup?
Shawn Weissman (Photo: GettyImages, Quality Sport Images)
Mallorca - Valladolid (Saturday, 19:30)
Although Valladolid scored five in the return game from the break in the cup about two weeks ago, but since then they have completed another 180 minutes without a goal, first in the league loss 2:0 to Real Madrid and then in the 1:0 at Alaves in the game that led to their elimination from the cup.
Shaun Weissman started midweek and did not score in the Cup, but may continue in the 11 following the absence of the suspended Sergio Leon, with the yellowing Xavi Sanchez also absent.
Hosts Mallorca needed extra time against Pontevedra on Wednesday and will be hoping to get back to winning ways at home, knowing a win would take them well off the bottom and complicate their opponents.
When they last met in the 2019/20 season, Valladolid beat Mallorca home and away.
Another game:
Espanyol - Girona (Saturday, 22:00)
Spanish League 2022/23
Group
games
victories
draw
losses
gates
points
1
Real Madrid
15
12
2
1
14-35
38
2
Barcelona
15
12
2
1
6-34
38
3
Real Sociedad
15
9
2
4
17-21
29
4
Athletico Madrid
15
8
3
4
14-23
27
5
Athletic Bilbao
15
7
4
4
14-24
25
6
in flight
15
7
4
4
12-17
25
7
Villarreal
15
7
3
5
11-17
24
8
Osasuna
15
7
2
6
16-16
23
9
We saw it
15
6
5
4
18-22
23
10
Majorca
15
5
4
6
15-13
19
11
Valencia
16
5
4
7
18-23
19
12
Girona
15
4
5
6
24-22
17
13
Almeria
15
5
2
8
23-17
17
14
Valladolid
15
5
2
8
23-13
17
15
Getafe
15
4
5
6
20-14
17
16
Celta de Vigo
16
4
4
8
27-16
16
17
Cadiz
16
3
6
7
11-27
15
18
Espanyol
15
2
7
6
23-17
13
19
Seville
15
2
6
7
23-14
12
20
Alecha
16
0
4
12
34-10
4
Draw for the round of 16 of the Spanish Cup:
Ceuta - Barcelona
Levante - Atletico Madrid
Sporting Gijon - Valencia
Alaves - Sevilla
Betis - Osasuna
Villarreal - Real Madrid
Real Sociedad - Mallorca
Athletic Bilbao - Espanyol
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