BARCELONA – Barcelona-Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao-Levante have reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, and it’s a double match in the vivirán los de ida la proxima semana, esperándose a la primera semana de marzo la resolution de eliminatorias para play the final, at the Estadio de la Cartuja de Sevilla, the 17th of April.
If for the Levant this is the first semi-final to be held since 1935, when he was able to eliminate Barça in the quarters close to Sabadell, the other three participants had the usual protagonists of the last rounds, including finals, of the competition. El Barça, who played their semi-final decision in the last years, won the title consecutively between 2015 and 2019; the Sevilla won the championship in 2007 in 2010, finals in 2016 and 2018 in Barcelona in the Athletic de Bilbao, which also won the dispute of the final of 2020 against Real Sociedad (the next trio will take place in April), would be sub-champion in 2009, 2012 and 2015, being derrotado also by the azulgrana team in the three occasions.
El Levante, with all due diligence claiming the Copa of 1937, disputed in full Civil War in the Republican band and that the contingent was not officially admitted by the Spanish Football Federation. On July 18, the Granota team was beaten 1-0 by Valencia at the Sarrià Stadium in Barcelona.
Barça and Sevilla were linked with a total of 28 Copa games, with 19 azulgran victories and 6 from the Andalusians. The final matches will be played and their first match will take place in the semifinals of 1919, with a triumph of the Catalan team (4-3 in Barcelona and 0-3 in Seville) that will win the final (5-2) against the Arenas de Guecho . His last car was in the quarter-finals of the 2018-19 season, a double match and a favorable result also for Barça, who lost 2-0 to Sanchez Pizjuán 6-1 in the Camp Nou.
Eliminatorias cruzaron in 13 occasions, conveve classifications of Barça by quarter of Seville, the last of them in 2010 and distancing the octaves of the final of 1946, when in the party of that the Andalus conjunction infringió the mayor scored by Barcelona el torneo (8-0) y pasando a semifinales al perder 1-0 en Les Corts.
Athletic and Levante, for their part, are only cruising in the final octaves of the 1946-47 season. In the away game disputed in San Mamés won the Lions by 6-2, which passes round losing by 4-2 in the air.