Historical rivalry: Barça and Athletic will live their 9th Copa del Rey final

The FC Barcelona classified the past Wednesday of heroic way for the big final of the Glass of Rey​. The culés traced back the 2-0 with which arrived the Seville of the gone of the semifinals and finish winning by 3-0 in the turn. A goal of Ousmane Dembélé to the start of the crash, another of Gerard Hammered almost in the last minute and another of Martin Braithwaite to the beginning of the extention put to the Barcelona in the final.

This Thursday was the turn of Athletic Club of Bilbao and Raise, that after the 1-1 of the gone aspired to be the another finalist. 'Granotas' And 'lions' empataron to one at the end of the 90 minutes and had to contest the final in the extention, where the bilbaínos were upper and finish marking the 1-2. Therefore, the Basques will confront to the Barcelona in the Cartuja of Seville the next 17 April.

It will be a very beautiful party and with a lot of history, since it will be the ninth final between both groups. The first traces back to the year 1920 and went in Gijón, where the blaugrana won by 2-0 with so many of Martínez and Alcántara. Twelve years later, in 1932, arrived the second and the revenge of the ones of Bilbao, that won by 1-0 with a target of Beat that it gave them the trophy.

In 1942 it arrived a new clash between both in a duel that carried the Barça by 4-3 in the extention. Eleven years later, in 1953, the culés won again the Glass in front of the Athletic by 2-1. It was necessary to expect more than 30 years, in 1984, for another Barcelona-Athletic. In this final, the Basques won to the group barcelonista led by Diego Armando Maradona in an end of crash that finish by the remembered and shameful tangana between both teams.

The last three finals have been much more recent, in 2009, in 2012 and in 2015. In the one of the 2009, the Barcelona went through on of the 'lions' and carried the Glass by 4-1 in Mestalla. In the 2012, the Catalans also won with ease in Vicente Calderón by 3-0. In 2015, not to change the habit, the Barça also carried the trophy by 3-1 and the bilbaínos remained without taking out the Gabarra.

The Athletic carried the Supercopa of Spain in January

It will be necessary to see which sucede in this ninth after the Athletic surpassed to the Barcelona in the final of the Supercopa of Spain in January. The ones of Marcelino García Toral traced back by twice to the blaugrana and finish winning in the extention with a golazo of Iñaki Williams. It was a painful defeat for the ones of Ronald Koeman, that will look for revenge and follow with the series of victories of the Catalans in Glass in front of the Basques.