Valencia And Getafe Work Hard To Escape To The Third Round Of The Copa Del Rey

Valencia advanced to the third round after eliminating Arosa SC through Roman Yaremchuk's goal. (Twitter @valenciacf_en)

JAKARTA - Valencia and Getafe, two Spanish La Liga clubs, had to work hard to get rid of their opponents from the bottom division in the second half of the Copa del Rey. Both Valencia and Getafe could only win slightly before stepping into the third round, Wednesday, December 6 in the morning WIB.

There were no surprises in the early rounds of the Copa del Rey. La Liga teams continued to advance despite having to work hard to get rid of their opponents.

Valencia was almost humiliated by amateur club Arosa SC who acted as host. Arosa is a team from division five or played in Tercera Division Group 1. They host Valencia at Stadium A Lomba with a capacity of 5,000 seats.

Much smaller than the Manahan Stadium, Solo, Indonesia, which was used for the 2023 U-17 World Cup final match.

Manahan itself has a capacity of 19,000 seats. However, in the U-17 World Cup match, the seat was limited to only 16,900.

Arosa himself qualified for the second half despite losing 3-0 to Lal Liga Granada in the first half. However, Granada was later disqualified for fielding players who were not on the list.

Be the Arosa who escaped to face Valencia. However, they did not move against Los Che. In that match, Valencia did not field the best squad.

However, the La Liga team is clearly still too strong for the hosts. The game has only been running for eight minutes, striker Roman Yaremchuk successfully broke into the Arosa goal.

After Yaremchuk's goal, Valencia even struggled to increase their advantage. Until the end of the match, the score 1-0 for Valencia did not change.

In other matches, Getafe also had to work hard to beat Atzeneta EU 2-1. Like Arosa, they also competed in Tercera Division.

In that match, striker Juanmi Latasa scored a brace that brought Getafe to victory as well as advance to the next round.

Latasa opened the victory in the 53rd minute. However, Atzeneta did not take long to equalize the score. Only three minutes later, Gorxa changed the position to 1-1.

Getafe continued to play attacking. And, Latasa scored the winner in the 74th minute. No goals were scored and Valencia won 2-1 over their opponents.

In another match, Espanyol, who last season was still competing in La Liga, beat Real Valladolid 3-1. Meanwhile, a small surprise occurred when Real Oviedo were forced to give up 3-1 by the third division team CD Castellon.