Barça will face the raging Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals

The Glass of the King has converted to day of today in the title that more to 'shot' has the FC Barcelona this season. After having deleted with some suffering to the Barbastro and to the Unionistas of Salamanca, the culés will face the quarter-finals with the mission to win to his first rival of some entity. The blaugrana will play for the first time in this tournament in front of a First, that will be neither more neither less than the AthleticClub .

The Basque picture will be definitely a rival of height that will put to proof the current level of a Barça that does not happen neither much less by his best moment. The bilbaínos are instead going through a big state of form and have a lot of confidence, after having won six parties followed, four in League and two in Glass of Rey. Besides, the ones of Ernesto Valverde do not lose from 22 October and sumand since 11 victories and three ties.

In case it did not go little with the tremenda series that have the ones of Euskadi, the meeting will be in Saint Mamés, an always complicated state in which the public goes to tighten a lot. The duel, that will go back to be to only party, will be the 23, 24 or 25 January, the next week. It goes to be a proof of brutal fire for the Barcelona and for Xavi Hernández, that will go out very reinforced in case to happen to semifinals.

The Barça has not had luck in this draw

After having had luck in the draw of eighth of final with the Unionistas, the fortune has gone on holiday in the one of the chambers, since the Athletic is one of the three or four teams more in shape of Spain. With the Real Madrid out of competition after falling against the Athletic, precisely only the rojiblancos in the Metropolitan and can that the Girona in Montilivi would have been worse rival. The Real Sociedad, the Mallorca, the Seville and the Celtic were the others options that had the barcelonistas.