Real Madrid is clearly favorite here. This tournament will be played with two semifinals and a final. This is the first semifinal.

They are in good form, and I’m expecting a good performance here in this small tournament (2 games) for them because they are coming from a bad performance and a fair defeat against Villarreal. Surely Ancelotti will push a lot of players to give their best, as they can’t afford two consecutive bad defeats.

They have a long squad and play a midweek game won’t be an issue for them, as opposite as Valencia. Maybe physically they aren’t in the best form, but Valencia is one of the worst teams in this aspect at this moment.

Key defender Carvajal is back, very important for the team because against Villarreal the team struggled to replace him.

Valencia is probably in the worst moment of the season. Their performances are so bad lately, are struggling to be competitive for more than 45 minutes, conceding a lot of goals, players in bad form, and the team is also really bad physically.

Even the coach Gatusso confirmed that the team isn’t in the best moment. They need transfers to improve the level, but also physically are in bad conditions, as well as the form of several starters which is far from the best one.

The defense is a mess, players are making many mistakes in every game, they are not able to keep the goal to nil. Goalkeeper Mamardashvilli has been the man of the match a lot of times lately.

Last season Madrid already beat Valencia twice - 4:1 and 1:2, showing a big difference in quality. For this match, the difference will be also in motivation and physically, where Madrid will be above Valencia.

Valencia will struggle to maintain a high level for more than 45 minutes. And if they want to beat Real Madrid, they must do it for 90 minutes, so I don’t see them able to beat Ancelotti’s team here.

The only teams who beat Madrid so far this season have been those ones who played a perfect game for 90 minutes with a lot of pace, something that Valencia isn’t able to do right now.

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在这里，皇马显然是最受欢迎的。这次比赛将进行两场半决赛和一场决赛。这是第一次半决赛。

他们的状态很好，我期待他们在这场小型比赛(2场比赛)中有良好的表现，因为他们刚刚经历了糟糕的表现和对比利亚雷亚尔的公平失败。安切洛蒂肯定会让很多球员发挥出最好的状态，因为他们承受不起两场连续的惨败。

他们有一个很长的阵容，打周中比赛对他们来说不是问题，和瓦伦西亚相反。也许他们的身体状态不是最好的，但瓦伦西亚在这方面是目前最差的球队之一。

关键后卫卡瓦哈尔回来了，这对球队来说非常重要，因为对阵比利亚雷亚尔的比赛中，球队很难找到他的替代者。

瓦伦西亚可能正处于本赛季最糟糕的时刻。他们最近的表现非常糟糕，在超过45分钟的时间里都很难保持竞争力，丢了很多球，球员状态不佳，球队的身体状况也很糟糕。

就连教练加图索也承认球队现在不是最佳状态。他们需要转会来提高水平，但身体状况也很差，几名首发球员的状态也远不是最好的。

防守一团糟，球员在每场比赛中都犯很多错误，他们无法把球保持在零。守门员马马达什维利最近多次成为比赛最佳。

上赛季马德里已经两次击败瓦伦西亚，分别是4:1和1:2，表现出了巨大的实力差距。在这场比赛中，双方在动力和体能上也会有所不同，马德里将在瓦伦西亚之上。

瓦伦西亚将努力保持45分钟以上的高水平。如果他们想要击败皇马，他们必须坚持90分钟，所以我不认为他们能在这里击败安切洛蒂的球队。

到目前为止，本赛季唯一击败马德里的球队是那些在90分钟内以很高的速度踢出完美比赛的球队，这是瓦伦西亚现在无法做到的。