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Unprecedented match in the Copa de la Reina

Unprecedented match in the Copa de la Reina

Athletic Club and UDG Tenerife will meet each other on Tuesday at 7pm at Lezama in the knockout round of sixteen

Either Athletic or Granadilla, only one of them will be able to reach the quarter-final stage of the Copa de la Reina. It will be an unprecedented contest, since both teams have played each other on nine occasions in the league, but never in the cup tournament. The Lionesses will play on Tuesday (Lezama, 7pm) the first knockout stage of the Copa de la Reina against a side who defeated them by a single goal in the league fixture held during the first half of the season.

Since the previously mentioned match against the Red and Whites, the side from the Canary Islands have picked up 11 out of the 30 possible points in the domestic competition. Given their negative results, Francis Díaz took the management of the team over from David Amaral in December. Both teams are approaching the Copa from different perspectives. Last week, the islanders fell 6-2 at Buñol against UD Levante, while Athletic Club won 0-2 at Abegondo, the home ground of Deportivo Abanca, where no one had managed to beat them until then.

Mari José is Granadilla’s highest goalscorer, with 6 goals. The veteran forward scored a hat-trick in their last home game. They are a solid team in which the group performance is above their individualities.