{"id":101857,"date":"2026-01-07T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/copa-del-rey-round-of-16-pairings-define-tough-challenges-for-football-giants\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:13:31","slug":"copa-del-rey-round-of-16-pairings-define-tough-challenges-for-football-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/copa-del-rey-round-of-16-pairings-define-tough-challenges-for-football-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa del Rey: Round of 16 Pairings Define Tough Challenges for Football Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">King&#8217;s Cup Round of 16 Pairings Defined<\/h2>\n\n\nThe draw for the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey has produced exciting matchups for the main clubs of Spanish football. The matches will be played in a single match on January 13, 14 and 15, promising an elimination phase full of intensity.\n\nBarcelona will face Racing de Santander at El Sardinero, while Real Madrid will visit Albacete. Meanwhile, Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid will play at Riazor against Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a.\n\nThe participation of several teams in the Spanish Super Cup has conditioned the pairings, matching these clubs with rivals from lower categories. In this context, Athletic Club will face Cultural Leonesa and Valencia will face Burgos, both teams from the Second Division.\n\nAmong the team clashes in LaLiga EA Sports, the draw determined the Betis-Elche, Real Sociedad-Osasuna and Alav\u00e9s-Rayo Vallecano matches, with the first mentioned team playing at home.\n\nThe match between Racing and Barcelona stands out as one of the most attractive of the round. The Cantabrian team, leader of LaLiga Hypermotion, already eliminated Villarreal in the previous phase and will seek to surprise the current League and Cup champion, who arrives with a winning streak.\n\nReal Madrid will visit the Carlos Belmonte stadium, with the favorable precedent of never having lost against Albacete in their historical matches. Atletico de Madrid, for its part, will face Deportivo, with a positive history in the competition, without ever having fallen against the Galician team.\n\nAthletic and Valencia will also have to be cautious against Second Division rivals. Cultural Leonesa comes from eliminating Levante, while Burgos left Getafe out in the previous round, which demonstrates the danger of these qualifiers.\n\nThe round is completed with balanced matches, such as Real Sociedad-Osasuna and Alav\u00e9s-Rayo Vallecano, the latter reflecting the fight for permanence in LaLiga.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Round of 16 Matches:<\/h2>\n\n\nDeportivo de La Coru\u00f1a \u2013 Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King&#8217;s Cup Round of 16 Pairings Defined The draw for the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey has produced exciting matchups for the main clubs of Spanish football. The matches will be played in a single match on January 13, 14 and 15, promising an elimination phase full of intensity. Barcelona will face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2123,11203,1557,6524],"class_list":{"0":"post-101857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kings-cup","10":"tag-matches","11":"tag-raffle"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}