Barcelona - Cultural Leonesa: Watch Online. UPDATED

Stay tuned for updates on where to watch today's match online (at 22:00 Spanish time GMT+1) , meanwhile check this guide to online broadcast sites I wrote on a recent post.

UPDATE! Here are the links:

P2P	Nombre	Idioma	Tipo	Kbps	Play
NO	Aljazeera Sport +2	en	Ustream	415	Play
P2P	International Soccer	ro	SopCast	288	Play
NO	Extralive	pt	Freedocast	285	Play
NO	snsacionss	es	Justin		Play
NO	vipcanal	ar	Justin		Play
NO	nadorlivehd	ar	Justin		Play
NO	geo2chanels	es	Justin		Play
NO	el0dia	es	Justin		Play
NO	psn260	es	Justin		Play
NO	sakaryali	tr	Freedocast		Play

Prematch: Barcelona - Cultural Leonesa (Copa del Rey)

Tonight we play Cultural again in the second match of the Copa del Rey. The two goals advantage will make Pep put a similar lineup to the previous math against Cultural with none or few main players on the field. This may be the lineup:

Barcelona: Pinto; Alves, Fontàs, Márquez, Maxwell; Sergio Busquets, Iniesta, Jonathan dos Santos; Pedro, Jeffren y Bojan

Cultural: Calzado; Cerveró, Roberto Carlos, Pereira, Salva; Segovia, Chema Mato; Ferrán, Yahvé, Alberto Suárez y Jito

The player to watch is Jito, the top scorer of all the spanish soccer leagues. Also, we'll have the chance to see young Barça promises as Jonathan, Jeffren or Pedro (who plays with the first team and scored two goals on La Copa and two more against Mallorca last weekend in La Liga). Bojan has another opportunity to prove himself as he Pep doesn't put him much on La Liga.

Fontàs, Benítez, Jonathan Soriano, Jonathan Dos Santos y Gai Assulin
 from the FC Barcelona Second Team

Match is played at 22:00 Spanish Time (that is GMT+1). Stay tuned for info on where to watch online.

Let's have a mini quote roundup:

We're not yet on the next round. This is the most dangerous round in Copa del Rey, we've been defeated several times on this same situation. Sport sometimes brings undesired susprises

Pep Guardiola

Tonight there'll be few people at the stadium, but anyone who comes we'll thank him. There'll be very good players on the filed tonight

Pep Guardiola

Of course Madrid can pass to next round, they've spent 260 millions on reinforcement, it's possible enough!!

Pep Guardiola

I've always dreamt of playing at the Camp Nou and in the end the dream is coming true

Jito, Cultural's top scorer

Full Time Highlights: Cultural Leonesa 0 - Barcelona 2 (Copa del Rey)

End of second half begins. Barça wins  2 - 0 The second half has been quite easy. Cultural players seemd tired and Barça could have scored one or twice. The second leg will be in two weeks

Stay tuned for the Cultural vs. Barça match highlights here.




63:13        Goal!!   Goal by Pedro (0-2) The pass was from Jeffren. He scored in the six-yard box.

Cultural 0 - Barcelona 2 (Pedro)

Second half begins

End of First half. Barça is having ball possesion but playing at a slow pace. Anyway, better skills are showing up and we are already one up.


40:22        Goal!!!    Goal by Pedro (0-1) He picks up the rebound and scores. He was in the 18-yard box.

Cultural 0 - Barcelona 1 (Pedro)

Prematch: Cultural Leonesa - Barcelona (Copa del Rey)

Tonight is the return of La Copa del Rey. Cultural Leonesa plays in Spanish 2a División B, that is the 3rd division of Spanish Leagues. This should be an easy match, but, beware, as Real Madrid suffered yesterday a humiliating defeat (4 -0 to Alcorcon) against a rival of a similar level.

The most probable lineup, as newspaper are reporting is: Pinto; Abidal, Márquez, Chygrynskiy, Maxwell; Sergio Busquets, Touré Yaya, Keita; Jeffrén, Bojan y Pedro

If you're planning on watching the match tonigh, remember neither Carles Puyol, Gerard Piqué, Xavi Hernández, Andrés Iniesta, Zlatan Ibrahimovic or Lionel Messi will be playing. Finally they are getting some rest. Five Barça's youth team are going to León and will start the match on the bench.

Fontàs, Benítez, Jonathan Soriano, Jonathan Dos Santos y Gai Assulin
 are the five Barça's youth team players going to León

Who is Cultural Leonesa?

First of all, Cultural Leonesa is the team of the President of Spain, Rodríguez Zapatero. Wel, it's one of both teams, being the other one... Barça. He even is a 'socio' and has a seat. Anyway, he's said not to be attending today.

As we've already said Cultural plays on Spanish 3rd Division and is not doing very well (they are in the last places of their league) Their main player is Jito, an exbarcelonist that has scored 9 goals in 10 league matches with Cultural this season.

Fifty years ago (1956) Barcelona played against Cultural Leonesa in Cultural's one and only First Division year. Nowadays they struggle to survive not just sportwise but economically.

Remember, the match is the first of two matches against Cultural and is played tonight at 10 pm Spanish hour.

We never throw away a match, even less a whole tournament

- Guardiola, asked about the absence of his top players

To score a goal would be incredible

- Jito, Cultural's best and only scorer




Related links:
- Copa del Rey preview (goal.com)
- Barcelona will treat the Copa del Rey seriously (goal.com)