Atletico Madrid have a perfect opportunity to raise morale after the loss to Barcelona in the Primera Liga football on Sunday and that when he plays in the hospitality rivals Real Madrid in the second leg of the first knockout round King's Cup on Thursday.

Atletico won 2-nil at home to Real defending champions in the first leg at the Calderon Stadium last week, so he has a big chance to topple neighbor and bring him another victory.

The team won Diego Simeone Real to be crowned the Spanish Super Cup in August and then again surpasses it 2-1 in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the Spanish league last September.

After that Real has achieved 22 consecutive victories in all competitions before losing to Valencia in the league and Atletico in the cup.

Juanfran right back to Atletico and denied that the group negatively affected by the loss to Barcelona.

It is likely that the winners of the Madrid summit to face Barcelona in the quarter-finals as the Catalans won the 5-zero at Elche in the first leg and seems close to qualifying on Thursday also.

He said Juanfran told reporters: "Regardless of the outcome match (against Barcelona), the Real will try to compensation. We will not allow it and I have confidence in our ability to qualify."

Real - who won the Champions League title last year after winning the final at Atletico - the loss of two games and won 3-nil at Espanyol in the league on Saturday and recovered.

And use a lot of clubs cup competition to pay the players bench, but Real coach Carlo Ancelotti intends to pay the strongest possible lineup.

Ancelotti said after the win over Espanyol "We have time to get ready for the game strongly. We will have the strongest squad for the match, we will try to compensation and we will do our best to reach the quarter-finals."

"Everybody is looking forward to this game, but we must be calm. We will prepare for the game and we will play at home and this will help us."

Second-tier teams and began to participate in the King's Cup since the 1969-1970 season, but this year is the first witness who only qualified for the first division clubs to the knockout competition.

The looming confrontation strong in the quarter-finals between Valencia and Sevilla, as seems likely that Malaga plays with Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal with Getafe....