Although it is true that the arbitration of Fernández Borbalán prejudiced to the FC Barcelona against the Athletic of Bilbao in Saint Mamés, true is also that the Barça played the last fifteen minutes of the meeting with the advantage to have to two players more on the lawn.
The hyperactivity of Neymar Jr caused the expulsions of Iturraspe and Raúl García, but in spite of the numerical superiority the ones of Luis Enrique did not know fraguar too many clear opportunities of goal against the goal of Iraizoz.
Luis Suárez had of a vaselina in counterattack that by little was about to to surprise, whereas Leo Messi stamped a shot in the stick during the last seconds of party. Further of this, however, the Barça did not attain to have of clear occasions in front of an Athletic that, with two expulsions and 2-1 in the marker, shut to bale out balloons backwards as it was logical.
The FC Barcelona, with advantage in the party of turn
The nine men rojiblancos situated very near of the own area, and from here the Barça did not achieve, neither by means of combination neither to unemployed balloon, put the ball inside the goal for the second time in Saint Mamés.
The positive news is that these two players expelled, vital in the diagrams of Ernesto Valverde, will not be able to play the party of turn of the eliminatory in the Camp Nou, where the Barça so only will need to mark a goal to happen to quarter-finals of Glass of Rey.