Real Madrid and Espanyol are playing in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals and the club comes in with Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo playing very well and the match is from Estadi Cornella-El Prat starting up at 3 pm ET and comes before the return to Santiago Bernabeu and that will come next week and Ronaldo will once again be the main focus on Tuesday in the match for Real.
The club comes in after a 5-0 win against Real Betis in La Liga play and before that the team won 2-0 against Osasuna in the previously Copa Del Rey round and now they have another big match. Coming up the club has the Champions League as well as more La Liga matches and those will be warm-ups for the Champions League, as the team will be dealing with Schalke first from Veltins-Arena and then the two will play at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in the return leg and that should be one of the best matches of the knockout round.
Ronaldo will be ready to go for Real when the time comes for the Champions League and he will be playing with more motivation, as he was named player of the year and beat out Lionel Messi for the award and now he has the chance to continue his year into 2014.
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Here is more on Real Madrid and an issue with Karim Benzema and more on the club above from their other matches and here is the story from Reuters.com and from the club's last match with Ronaldo after he won the Ballon d'Or. Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo scored the opening goal as 10-man Real Madrid beat Osasuna 2-0 on Wednesday to qualify for the King's Cup quarter-finals 4-0 on aggregate.
Osasuna held Barcelona and Real to draws at El Sadar in the league this season but the visitors, fired by the confidence of a 2-0 first-leg win, had far too much for them in attack.
Ronaldo, named FIFA World Player of the Year on Monday, was fortunate to score, however, as his free kick slipped through the hands of keeper Andres Fernandez after 20 minutes.
Angel Di Maria slotted in the second to seal a comfortable win even though Real defender Fabio Coentrao was given his second yellow card six minutes from time.
"We knew it was going to be difficult and that Osasuna were going to come out strong, so it was good to get the opening goal. The shots from Cristiano are difficult to stop as they move around a lot," Real midfielder Asier Illarramendi told reporters.
"We worked hard but now we need to keep going and next we have Betis in the league at the weekend.*
"Real put out a strong side but Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale were left out of the attack with Isco given the unfamiliar role of leading the line."
As Real began to relax towards the end of the first half, Osasuna threatened and Alvaro Cejudo hit the woodwork with a 25-yard drive while Miguel De las Cuevas forced a smart save from Iker Casillas.
Their heads dropped, though, when Di Maria fired home a Jese Rodriguez cross 10 minutes into the second half. With the match all but won Coentrao needlessly fouled Roberto Torres and was given a second booking but Real still sealed an easy win.
Espanyol survived a scare as they went a goal down having lost the first leg 1-0 at second division Alcorcon but they responded with a 4-2 win and 4-3 aggregate success.
Athletic Bilbao also knocked out Real Betis and Levante eliminated Rayo Vallecano.
Champions Barcelona take on Getafe on Thursday following a 4-0 victory in the first leg.
The trial of French soccer internationals Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema on charges of soliciting an underage prostitute started on Monday.
Real Madrid striker Benzema and Bayern Munich forward Ribery, who are not attending the four-day trial, are being tried on charges of paying Zahia Dehar, a prostitute-turned-fashion model, for sex in 2008 and 2009, when she was aged 16 and 17.
Ribery has admitted paying her for sex but said he did not know how hold she was. Benzema has denied having any sexual relations with Dehar.
Paying for sex is not illegal in France but underage prostitution is.
The trial is going on amid a heated debate in France over a reform of prostitution laws aimed at imposing fines on clients.
Benzema and Ribery's lawyers said on Monday they were confident the players would be cleared of all charges.
They stressed that a Paris prosecutor said during the investigation that there was no evidence to prove that Ribery and Benzema could have known the girl was a minor.
"The prosecutor has asked for the case to be dismissed," Carlo-Alberto Brusa, Ribery's lawyer, told reporters at the Paris court where the trial opened.
"(Dehar) is not a civil party in the case anymore. She does not see herself as a victim, so we have a trial but no accusation," he added.
(Reuters)
