copa del rey

October 28th, 2009

Marbella 0 – Atlético 2: It’s Still Something

By: Al | Comments 5 Comments

This stage of the Copa del Rey is usually boring and the favorable result is usually given to the Primera Division clubs that aren’t Real Madrid. However, this was Quique Flores’ debut match and another shot at an easy victory for a team that struggles to maintain leads against 9-men squads. To be fair to [...]

Category Category: Review, copa del rey


January 14th, 2009

Well What Can Ya Do

By: Al | Comments 7 Comments

In the words of Pep Guardiola, a great team was eliminated.
The “friendly” didn’t go so bad. Knowing that Atlético actually tried to play a solid match this time was enough to settle my nerves.
Not too many chances and shots on goal, but the team still didn’t do too bad.
Still a loss, but with heads [...]

Category Category: Review, copa del rey
January 7th, 2009

A Lesson Not Learned

By: Al | Comments 2 Comments

We’re out of the Copa del Rey. On paper we really aren’t, but we’re done. Simple as that.
Two times in a row we lose to Barça? Not surprising. They were definitely the better team but I’m not going to talk about how much better they were, as this is the wrong blog for that. If [...]

Category Category: Review, copa del rey
October 28th, 2008

The “Where Are We Again?” Round

By: Al | Comments No Comments

Like every other Primera División team, we are also playing a little-known lower division team in this round of the Copa Del Rey (unless you’re Bilbao and Recre). We have been assigned the task of entertaining Orihuela CF from Segunda División Group 3, the league that hosts a variety of B teams of many big [...]




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