Copa del Rey: Espanyol and Girona, the only top-flight teams to fall into the second round of the cup | King’s Cup 2025

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Cup night started poorly for the top flight teams. It looks like the second round, before the Super Cup teams enter, will be full of some surprises, but at 7:00 p.m. The matches were real torture for Espanyol and Rayo Vallecano and after two hours Valencia also started losing to Cartagena. Finally, with horror and heroics, all the top division teams except the Parrots made it through.

Atletico Palleres and Avila, after an equal first half against the Catalan team and Madrid, took the lead on the scoreboard, through Tovar and Easter consecutively at the beginning of the second half. It was no coincidence that both teams had the opportunity to increase the score until the changes revitalized the first division teams at match time.

Espanyol was finally unable to raise the score against the Balearic Islands (1-0) and accompanied Girona in the usual cup surprises. Rayo took the game into extra time with a last-gasp goal from Essie, with the entire arsenal already on the pitch. It was red and white overtime and Avila held on to level the score Alvaro Garciawho came on in the second half, scored with a header when Avila’s team was within sight of a penalty shootout (1-2).

Sevilla did not want any fears or surprises. Almeida’s men were out in the match against Extremadura (1-2) from the first minute and before the end of the first half they were ahead by two goals. Isaac RomeroWho will not be able to play in the league after being sent off against Betis, and AlphonseThey scored goals to reassure Sevilla fans. However, the Extremadurans struggled in the second half, but were unable to erase Sevilla’s lead.

Valencia and Celta had to play their matches against Cartagena and Saint Andrew. that Corberan They found themselves with a purpose Ortonio In return, they returned with another goal from Lucas Beltran, while the Planets had several opportunities to open the scoring. Hugo Alvarez, Jutjala and SwedbergBut they weren’t finished digging the target Garcia Alejo. In the end both games went to overtime.

Chinese extra time was awarded to the Celestials on an outside goal Alexisbut Borja Iglesias He managed to equalize after one minute. Valencia was unable to score despite his attempts Rioja The second part of extra time was ended by the two first division teams with a one-goal difference. However, while the Chase did the heroic thing with a penalty kick saved Dimitrievsky Then aim Jesús Vasquez In stoppage time, Vigo’s team went to penalty kicks, which they managed to pass after 14 shots.