Villarreal will have a nice chance to maintain their strong spell of form on Thursday evening when they travel to Estadio Municipal El Molinon to battle Segunda Division side Sporting Gijon in the last 32 round of Copa del Rey.

El Submarino Amarillo ended last year as one of the most in-form teams in Europe. They managed a streak of five straight victories in all competitions.

Besides three league wins over Rayo Vallecano, Real Sociedad, and Alaves, the run involves the UEFA Champions League victory at Atalanta (2-3) as well as the 1-7 drubbing of Sanluqueno in the previous round of Copa del Rey.

Unai Emery’s men bagged as many as 15 goals in the last three wins last year. They demolished Alaves 5-2 at home along the way.

Also, El Submarino Amarillo scored as many as 15 goals in two cup wins over Victoria CF and Sanluqueno.

Knowing that Sporting Gijon lost three and drew three of the last six home fixtures in Segunda Division, we have plenty of reasons to expect the visitors to provide yet another impressive performance at the start of the year.

Unai Emery has a wide range of attacking option capable of hurting Gijon here. Paco Alcacaer and Samu Chukwueze are thus the team’s top scorers in Copa del Rey, while Gerard Moreno, Arnaud Danjuma, and Yeremi Pino impressed in La Liga and Champions League so far in the season



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比利亚雷亚尔将有一个很好的机会在周四晚上的国王杯上保持他们强劲的状态，他们将前往莫利农市立球场迎战第二赛区的希jon竞技。

阿马里洛是去年欧洲状态最好的球队之一。他们在所有比赛中都取得了五连胜。

除了在联赛中三次战胜瓦列卡诺、皇家社会和阿拉维斯外，这场比赛还包括在欧洲冠军联赛中战胜亚特兰大(2-3)，以及在上一轮国王杯中1-7击败桑卢奎诺。

乌奈-埃默里的球队在去年的三场比赛中打进了15个进球。他们在主场以5-2击败了Alaves。

此外，阿马里洛在与维多利亚·CF和桑卢奎诺的两场杯赛中攻入了15粒进球。

我们知道希洪竞技在最近的六场主场比赛中输掉了三场平局，我们有足够的理由期待客队在今年年初会有另一场令人印象深刻的表现。

乌奈埃默里有广泛的攻击选择，有能力在这里伤害希洪。阿尔卡埃和楚克维泽因此成为了球队在国王杯上的最佳射手，而杰拉德·莫雷诺、阿尔诺·丹朱马和皮诺则在西甲和欧冠上都留下了深刻的印象