Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa take on the visitors Barcelona at the Estadio Reino de Leon in the first leg fixture of the Copa del Rey 1/16-finals. The match will be played in Leon on Wednesday, October 31st.
Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa have been looking pretty good in the Segunda Division B recently. They have been conceding less than a goal a match on average there. It`s worth noting that La Cultu have managed to show a solid performance even against Real Madrid B lately. The main goal for the team is to compete for the Segunda Division promotion this season. Thereby it is unlikely that they will concentrate on the Copa del Rey now. The only thing that could help the team of Victor Cea in their upcoming game against Barcelona would be their great passion. The best thing that they could do on Wednesday would be avoid losing with a big score. In their last three matches Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa beat Internacional de Madrid with a 3-1 score, drew against Valladolid B with a 0-0 score and beat Lorca with a 3-0 score in the 1/32-finals fixture of the Copa del Rey.
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Barcelona won their last Primera Division fixture dramatically against Real Madrid with a 5-1 score. Even though they didn`t have Lionel Messi in their squad for that game they managed to beat Los Blancos with a big score anyway. It has been obvious that the Blaugrana have been on a roll recently. Even if they use all of their reserve players in the match against Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa on Wednesday the team of Ernesto Valverde will beat them no matter what most likely. However, the team is often inclinable to fail unexpectedly. They had exactly this type of a situation last September. Back then, they were unable to get a victory for three games in a row. Now though the Blaugrana are in an incredible shape, they have scored five goals against Real Madrid, four goals against Tottenham Hotspur and four goals against Sevilla too all recently. The team is really far from the crisis period at the moment. In their last three matches Barcelona beat Real Madrid with a 5-1 score, Internazionale with a 2-0 score in their UEFA Champions League group stage fixture and Sevilla with a 4-2 score.
Even if Barcelona fail in the upcoming first leg fixture against Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa they will have a second leg match against them at the Camp Nou anyway. However, it is likely that the Blaugrana will try to crush their opponent in the first leg match already. Barcelona have been winning the gold in this tournament for four seasons straight. Thereby scoring against a team from the lower division should not become a struggle for them. The team of Ernesto Valverde will win both the first half and the whole match on Wednesday almost for sure. Even though there will be a lot of reserve players in the squad of the away side the Blaugrana will manage to beat La Cultu anyway.
Prediction for the match: Barcelona to win the first half and the match .
