Melilla take on the visitors Real Madrid at the Estadio Municipal Alvarez Claro in the first leg fixture of the Copa del Rey 1/16-finals. The match will be played in the eponymous city Melilla on Wednesday, October 31st.
Melilla have never even managed to go through to the Segunda Division in their history. However, they are on the first place in the Group 4 of the Segunda Division B at the moment. Last season the team of Luis Carrion lacked only several points in order to compete in the promotion play-offs. They have already had fourteen matches this season and have lost only one of them. The upcoming fixture against Real Madrid will be a dream one for the players of the team for sure. In their last three matches Melilla drew against Jumilla with a 0-0 score, against Murcia with a 2-2 score and beat Ontinyent with a 2-0 score in the 1/32-finals fixture of the Copa del Rey.
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Real Madrid have been in a horrible shape recently. They are unlikely to compete for the gold in the Primera Division this season. Los Blancos struggled even in their last UEFA Champions League group stage fixture against Viktoria Plzen and beat them with -1.0 handicap only. It`s worth noting that the victory over the Czech was the first for the team In six games. Now Los Merengues have a 1/16-finals fixture of the Copa del Rey ahead of them after they lost to Barcelona last weekend. It is likely that the team of Santiago Solari will fully consist of the reserve players like it has always been in the Copa del Rey. Thereby it is hard to say if Los Vikingos will manage to beat Melilla with a big score in the upcoming fixture. It could easily happen that the team from Madrid would even concede from Melilla on Wednesday considering the shape their defensive line has been in recently. Los Blancos have been conceding lots of goals even at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. In their last three matches Real Madrid lost to Barcelona with a 1-5 score, beat Viktoria Plzen with a 2-1 score in their UEFA Champions League group stage fixture and lost to Levante with a 1-2 score.
Real Madrid have been unable to win the Copa del Rey trophy for four seasons now. For example, they showed zero solid performances in the tournament and got knocked out by Leganes in the quarterfinals last season. However, Los Blancos should beat Melilla with their high class only on Wednesday. If they don`t do that they will have a second leg match against the team of Luis Carrion anyway. It is likely though that there won`t be a lot of goals scored in the upcoming fixture between the teams.
Prediction for the match: Under 3.5 goals scored.
