Barcelona is still in turmoil and Real Madrid has had a bad time: both are in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey

When it looked like the slap Barcelona had given him in Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup was tripping him up at the Estadio de la Cerámica, Real Madrid managed to turn the score around Villarreal and progress to the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey. The same instance that the Catalan team had already reached hours earlier after a sensational victory against a third division team.

The classification of real Madrid called for a great comeback: they went into the interval with two goals conceded, but in the complement they beat the villareal and qualified for the quarter-finals after winning 3-2, with goals from Los goles de Vinicius Junior, eder militao Y Daniel Ceballos. For him Yellow submarine I had opened the account after three minutes Etienne Capoue and extended the lead Samu Chukwuezefour from the end of the first part.

Villarreal’s 2022 Qatar 2022 defending world champion Argentina’s Juan Foyth, started but left six minutes into the second half due to injury. That was the beginning of the Yellow Sub’s downfall, as up until then the former Estudiantes had controlled Vinicius, who ended up serving six minutes later.

While, Barcelona won 5-0 against the Agrupación Deportiva Ceuta and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. By this way, the leader of Spanish football and recent Super Cup championcontinues apace in the competition.

The current rival for the Culé team was a humble team that plays in the third division of Spanish football and which, as if that weren’t enough, is in the last position of group A with only 8 points in 19 games played.

Despite the level difference between the two teams, It took Barcelona 40 minutes to open the scoring. The first goal came thanks to raphinhawho received a ball near the penalty area, entered and placed the ball near the post with his left foot.

Once parity was broken, there was no turning back and Ceuta could not even exert force. In the 9th minute of the second half, the promotion tries to come out by playing from below, but it doesn’t come out in the best way. Frank Kessie recovers the ball after great pressure, looks for Lewandowski in the center and the Pole just pushes.

The third goal came at the feet of Ansu Fati, the young Spanish talent started on the substitutes’ bench, but jumped onto the pitch in the 15th minute. 10 minutes after entering, he receives the ball from three quarters of the way up the pitch, tackles it and when it enters the opponent’s area he sneaks a shot against the goalkeeper’s left post.

Only six minutes later comes the fourth goal. Kessie, who had assisted in the double-up, received her own account. After a great cross from Raphinha from the right, the Ivorian enters the rival area and hits a great header by himself.

With one minute remaining in the game, Lewandoski scored his second goal of the match. The former Bayern Munich player scores an average of 22 goals in 23 games with the Blaugrana shirt.

Real had more difficulties

The yellow submarine kicked off the dream game. He took the lead when Gerard Moreno assisted Capoue, who took in a cross to open the scoring. Only four minutes had been played. Without Real reacting, at the end of the first set, they increased their advantage.

It was in the 42nd minute, Chuckwueze connected a ball in the box, one on one with Courtois and nothing indicated that Merengue would recover in the second half, as they had failed to equalize the game in 45 minutes.

The second half was decidedly different: the discount came when Vinicius received a definite through ball before goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen came off 12 minutes after the restart. The goal gave the Madrid team confidence, which began to dominate the game and suffocate Villarreal.

The equalizer comes from Militao, after a cross into the area that Benzema manages to deflect with a header but Jorgensen blocks: the ball remains for the Brazilian who ends up shouting for goal. There were still 20 minutes to go and with four minutes to go Ceballos scored his third goal after receiving a pass from deep and hitting it wide of the post. In this way he sank the Yellow Submarine and recovered from the weekend’s defeat.

​Lucas “Pocho” Román, the Argentine jewel bought by Barcelona

​Barcelona have announced the signing of the young Argentine Lucas ‘Pocho’ Romanofrom Western Railwayand, until June 2026, with a clause of 400 million euros for this young lefty who will turn 19 on February 10th.

Although the Catalan club did not want to provide details on the operation, Ferro announced the transfer for €1.2m and will keep 15% of the move in a future sale.

If ‘Pocho’ Román has signed for Barcelona, ​​there is a lot to be done Javier MascheranoArgentine Under-20 coach, and who put the Barça club on track where “the little boss” triumphed.

The striker was sought after by Argentine football greats. Marcellus Gallardo wanted it for River, San Lorenzo and Independiente had him on the listalso the interest of Milan to get their services.