The Copa del Rey Round of 16 match between Girona and Rayo Vallecano is scheduled for Wednesday, January 17 at 10.30pm at the Estadio Montilivi live on Digi Sport 1.

Girona, the opener of this season, and Rayo Vallecano, one of the good teams in Spain, will meet in one of the most interesting matches of the 1/8 finals of the Spanish Cup (only one match is played).

Girona qualified for this phase of the competition after beating San Roque 2-1 in the first round, Orihuela 5-2 in the second round, both teams play in the Segunda Federación (fourth division), while Round of 16 Elche team from LaLiga 2 (second division), score 2-0, each time away.

In LaLiga, the team coached by Michel Sánchez is in 1st place after 20 stages with 49 points, one more than Real Madrid, who have one game less, after three wins and two draws in the last five of official games. in the last one played in the league, it ended in a 0-0 draw away to Almeria.

Girona’s best performance so far in the Copa del Rey is the quarter-finals in the 2018-2019 season (they were eliminated in the second round of the tournament last season).

Rayo Vallecano advanced to the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey by beating Lugones, a Primera Asturfutbol team (sixth regional league), 6-0 in the first round and Jeclano, a Segunda Federación team (fourth league), scoring 2-0. and in the round of 16 against Huesca, a team from LaLiga 2 (second league), scoring 2-0, each time away.

Francisco Rodríguez’s side are 11th after 20 games in La Liga with 23 points, eight above the relegation zone, and have achieved two wins, a draw and two defeats in their last five official games, the last away to Huesca, with 1/8 final of the Spanish Cup, score 2-0.

Andrii Raciu has started all three of Rayo Vallecano’s games in the current Copa del Rey campaign, with the 25-year-old Romanian right-back also scoring a goal in the 6-0 win over Lugones.

In the Copa del Rey, Rayo Vallecano’s best performances to date are two semi-final appearances in the 1981-1982 and 2021-2022 seasons (they were eliminated in the round of 16 last season).

The last time these two teams met in the current edition of LaLiga was on November 11, 2023, when Girona won 2-1 at Rayo Vallecano after goals from Dovbyk (42) and Savinho (65) and Alvaro Garcia (5) respectively. .

Superbet offers odds of 1.22 on the 1X prediction: a win for the hosts or a draw in the regular time of 90 minutes of the match between Girona and Rayo Vallecano.

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