Big night of SPANISH CUP action with the remaining five games scheduled with goals galore, multiple hat-tricks & a grand way for Spanish Soccer to go on its Xmas break. Here are quick summaries of the games, the results & the scorers.
Benzema hat-trick man
REAL MADRID won 8 - 0 LEVANTE to assure its pass to the next stage of the Spanish Cup & calm the waters at the Club after a tense couple
SPANISH CUP action tonight with three matches that all gave the same result. Here is a quick summary of the away leg games, the results & scorers.
Mata hits the wood-work
VALENCIA held out an "unrecognizable" VILLAREAL & threw everything at them in attack but only managed to finish with a 0 - 0 draw result. Valencia was the better team & even hit the "wood-work" apart from "suffocating" the
The SPANISH CUP last 16 teams draw has been celebrated today with the following match ups:
1. Valencia - Villarreal
2. Barcelona - Athletic Club
3. Córdoba - Deportivo
4. Betis - Getafe
5. Almería - Mallorca
6. Sevilla - Málaga
7. Real Madrid - Levante
8. Atlético de Madrid – Espanyol
FC Barcelona - At Bilbao
The first leg will be the 22nd of December with the return 2º leg the 5th of January
The last four games of the SPANISH CUP 2º leg have been played tonight with the following results & scorers.
Usua scores for Mallorca
The first leg ended MALLORCA - SPORTING GIJON 3 - 1. The return match at Gijon gave a 2 -2 draw with Mallorca eliminating Sporting from the Spanish Cup. USUA scored twice for Mallorca in the 10th & 15th min & for Sporting BILIC ( penalty ) in the 25th min &
Full SPANISH CUP 2º leg Wednesday night results
Team highlighted in black through to next roun of the Spanish Cup
( ) - 1º leg result
Bojan & the Barça boys do the job
FC Barcelona 5 - Ceuta 0
(2-0) 1-0, min.2: Nolito. 2-0, min.7: Milito. 2-1, min.35: Guzmán. 3-1, min.50: Pedro. 4-1, min.65: Bojan. 5-1, min.67: Messi.
Real Madrid 5 - Murcia 1
(0-0) 1-0, m.3: Granero. 2-0, m.44: Higuaín. 3
SPANISH CUP return leg action tonight with two games , with the bulk tomorrow & the remaining on Thursday.
The first leg finished with lower Division Club Cordoba 2 - Racing 0. RACING DE SANTANDER needed to put in a grand match as CORDOBA had a strong away goal advantage. The home team put its mind to work & managed two goals via BOLADO in the 25th min & KENNEDY in the 72th min that equalized
The last three games of the 1º leg of the SPANISH CUP season 2010 -2011 ( the last 32 teams stage) concluded tonight with the following results & scorers
Gurpegui for At Bilbao
Second Division Club ( & last years Real Madrid killers ) ALCORCON lost 0 - 1 to ATHLETIC DE BILBAO thanks to the 54th min goal scored by defender GURPEGUI. Bilbao go into the 2ºleg with a valuable away goal.
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A huge night of SPANISH CUP action with 11 games scheduled & still three games are down for tomorrow night before this 1º leg gets finished. Some interesting results, as with the characteristics of this competition, there have been some surprises. Here is a quick summary of the Wednesday night Spanish Cup results along with the goalscorers.
Sevilla FC celebrate a goal against Real Union
The "big" Spanish League Teams began their particular attempt at winning the 2010-2011 SPANISH CUP with the start of the 1º leg games of the last 32 teams stage. Two matches tonight were played, with the bulk happening tomorrow & three on Thursday night that gives the Spanish fans plenty of Football this week.
Benzema against Real Murcia - Spanish Cup
REAL MADRID travelled to REAL MURCIA (
ATHLETIC DE BILBAO defeated REAL MADRID 0 – 2 to take the 2010 JUNIOR SPANISH CUP TITLE after waiting 18 years for it. Real Madrid were favourites before the match with their team full of of “young stars” but last years finalists (lost to Sevilla FC) had an obsession with winning this title. PEÑA & VILLAR were the scorers for Bilbao a helped finally to give them the prized “Silverware” to place
Source Blog : Sp Ftball Sprts /Congratulations to SEVILLA FC for their 0-2 victory over ATLETICO DE MADRID in the Final of the 2009-2010 SPANISH CUP in a packed "Camp Nou" Stadium in Barcelona with 90.000 screaming & excited fans.Sevilla FC went out attacking hard early & it paid off in the 5th min when a deviated ball allowed Sevilla winger CAPEL (above) to fire an unstoppable shot that found