SECOND TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE GLASS
FC Barcelona-Seville, the final of the Glass of the King 2017-18
Published:9/02/2018 - 04:11h
Updated:9/02/2018 - 04:44h
FC Barcelona and Seville will be the teams that contest finally the final of the Glass of the King 2017-18, still with the headquarters for deciding, after a week in which the hispalenses deleted to the Leganés and the blaugrana to Valencia this Thursday
FC Barcelona and Seville had to suffer in the parties of gone of his respective eliminatory against Leganés and Valencia, but in the ones of turn imposed his law for, with both 2-0 (0-2 in the case of the Barça), certify his presence in the final of the Glass of the King 2017-18 that will play the next 21 April, the second of the history that will confront to Barça and Seville in the last party of the tournament of the KO.
The Barcelona, of this way, will contest his fifth final copera consecutive and will have the opportunity to conquer four consecutive titles in said competition, something inaudito. This Thursday suffered in the first-half against Valencia, but in the second attained acallar Mestalla thanks to the targets of Philippe Coutinho and Rakitic to sentence definitively the semifinals.
Espanyol, Celtic of Vigo and Real Murcia were the teams that perished in the previous rounds against the Barça, whereas the Seville was able to delete in quarter-finals to the Athletic of Madrid and, previously, to Cádiz and Cartagena.
With the new final reached, the FC Barcelona adds already five finalísimas consecutive of the tournament of the KO, something that never had achieved. In total are 40 the finals of Glass of the King to which has arrived, having won until the moment 29 to fault to know what sucede in front of the Seville.
The Barça, to win again to the Seville in the final
Of 1951 to 1954, it played four finals followed and won three of them of consecutive way, a statistics that equalised this campaign the Barça of Luis Enrique, and that now Ernesto Valverde pretends to surpass. It does two seasons, remember that the Barça of 'Struggle' already bent to the Seville in the extention to finish winning by 2-0 in the final of the Glass of the King 2015-16, during the season in which it achieved the doublet when conquering also LaLiga. Now, it touches a new machada in front of the Andalusians.