The Fans of Benidormida couldn't have hoped for a better start to the season on a glorious sunny day, the season kicked off in Sweden and the Spanish side put on a show winning 3-0 Reyes and Vederson scoring on their debut.
Next up was the Cup 1st leg against holders River Plate, and what a turn around since the final, River were given a footballing lesson in a 3-0 defeat, Reyes again scoring.
Benidormida won the next 2 league games, and then travelled to Buenos Aires for the 2nd leg, and goals from Ntibazonkza and Adrian helped them to a 2-2 draw winning 5-2 on aggregate.
This led to a sticky patch, in the next 5 league games the Spanish side only picked up 6 points out of 15, a 2-1 defeat away to Crvena Zvezda saw Gibney's side drop to 3rd place.
The quarter final 1st leg saw a tough away game to Malaga, Rens van Eijden's header from a Reyes corner enough to give them a vital away goal, this great result was followed by Remy's solo goal enough to beat Helsinki at home.
Benidormida again travelled to Buenos Aires but this time it was a different game, the Argentines seemed to strong and cruised to a 2-0 victory, Benidorms worse performance so far.
Back on Spanish soil they went to Numancia and Sahar and Leao scored to lift them to a 2-0 win.
And just before the transfer window, Malaga came to Benidorm and left empty handed a bore 0-0 was enough for Gibney's team to seal a place in the Semi Finals.
The thoughts going into the 4 week break, Is this side good enough to win promotion, will Gibney strengthen and in what areas, can they reach the final of the Cup 2 years running.
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