BARCELONA – Won in front of Navalcarnero (0-6), Granada will take on Barcelona in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, around which these fours will be held in Madrid and will be eliminated, only once, will be disputed between the martes y jueves de la proxima semana. The duel between the club andaluz and the azulgrana alumbra as the most detached, completes the team of the Betis-Athletic Bilbao, Levante-Villarreal and Almería-Sevilla teams.
With the Barça, which has surpassed 28 of the last 30 eliminators of Copa that it has played, as the main favorite, the four teams have entered the semi-finals, there has been a double game and the first two games will be played in the second half, disputing the games de vuelta la segunda semana de marzo.
The duel between Granada in Barcelona will be the second between both, and also in Los Cármenes, in less than one month, despite the fact that on January 9 the Koeman team wins in LaLiga by a score of 0-4, in what could be derrota of the Andalusians as locals this campaign after 14 games since September.
Curiously, Granada will be the new party that Barça disputes with the Camp Nou leaders of the first games that have been played since 2021.
The precedents in the Copa de España between both were repaired in 1949 and 1959, not having to look at the cars of the entones. In the final quarters of the 1949 edition, the Idaho party, disputed in the old stadium of Los Cármenes, ended with a draw, while in the game, played in Les Corts el Barça scored by an unquestionable 5-0, with double passes from Marcos Aurelio and Basora. The azulgrana acabaria team were eliminated by Valencia, behind the champions, in the semi-finals.
The second and last time he cruised to the Copa fue in the final of 1959, the only one disputed in all its history by Granada and that, disputed in the Santiago Bernabéu was taken with solvency by the Barça of Helenio Herrera, which was earlier he won the League and was beaten by 4-1, with doubles by Kocsis, Eulogio Martínez and Tejada in front of Arsenio Iglesias’ solitary goal.
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If Barça appear as the favorite over Granada, as the temporary pass was eliminated by the Athletic of Bilbao in the semi-finals for the double value of the goals on the opposite side, it will be the same in the duel in which the Almería, the only representative of 2ª Division, recibirá al Sevilla.
Eliminated by the Mirandés in the quarterfinals of last season, the Sevilla, last year’s champion of the Copa in 2010 (when won at Atlético in the Camp Nou by 2-0), disputed in the last final in 2018, eliminated by the Barça en el Metropolitano. For the Almería will be the first time to play the quarterfinals of 2011, when Cayo in the semifinals in front of Barcelona.
More equal is the presumption in the Levante-Villarreal, teams that will never play the final, and in the Betis-Athletic of Bilbao, protagonists of the final history of 1977 and that the team won Andalus in the penalty shootout (8-7 ) after acquiring the party with empathy to dos.
The Athletic, last week’s tournament champion in 1984, final final 2009, 2012 and 2015 both Barcelona waited for Betis to reach its first final since 2005, meaning its second trophy was impressive (2-1) at Osasuna.