Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are playing in the Spanish Copa Del Rey semifinals on Wednesday and the match puts together two of the best teams in La Liga and is live streaming online from Santiago Bernabeu and starts up at 2 pm ET and has Cristiano Ronaldo in action looking to get his team through to the finals.
Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are set to start for Real Madrid and Ronaldo was in line to miss the semifinals match and that came after he was sent off with a red card against Athletic Bilbao. The newest reports say that he will be fine to play on Wednesday in the match after the red card, which came after he raised a hand during an incident in the match last week in the 1-1 draw and the ruling was that he would get a three match ban in La Liga and the reason was that they said his gesture was inconsiderate.
There was a chance that a four games ban could have come down that included the Copa, but instead he will miss matches against Villarreal at home, Getafe away and Elche at home and those will be important, but not as crucial as him playing on Wednesday and Real is looking for a lesser ban anyway, saying that there were issues in the match last week. Ronaldo has once again been playing very well and he won the player of the year already over rival Lionel Messi and now he and Bale are set to start in the match.
Bale is coming in after dealing with a thigh injury and that was in a 2-0 win on January 25 and he is expected to start after resting his injury. The lineup will have Iker Casillas and Xabi Alonso along with Luka Modric and they are going up against Diego Costa and Real comes in after the 1-1 match with Ronaldo and the 1-0 victory against Espanyol the game before that. The club has been scoring quite a bit and they had a 5-0 win against Real Betis before that and they come in after winning in the quarter-final against Espanyol.
Real has some tough matches coming up on the schedule and that includes the first leg against Schalke at Veltins-Arena in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 and they also have matches against Malaga, Atletico Madrid as well as Elche and Getafe. Atletico is in first place on the La Liga table in the Primera division and they are three points up on Barcelona and Real Madrid and Real is in third on goals over Athletic and they all have a huge lead on the table. Atletico is up by over 10 points on the fourth ranked team, while Barca and Real have an 11 points lead on the table as well.
