FC Barcelona will face Real Madrid in The Copa del Rey finalafter winning this April 2 in the Tour of Semifinals to Atlético de Madrid by 1-0 (5-4 in the global computation of the tie) in the Metropolitan.
The lonely goal of Ferran Torres (27), which has five in the competition, to pass a superb Lamine Yamal, Send the club culé to fight for the title Coto at the Cartuja stadium, in Seville.
“The classic is fantastic, but we have to play many games. For me it is behind other important things,” said Barsa coach, German Hansi Flick.
Real Madrid and Barcelona, who have eliminated Real Sociedad and Atlético de Madrid in the semifinals, respectively, They will face the Copa del Rey final for the eighth time In the history of the tournament.
When what time the classic Real Madrid vs Barcelona will be played for the final of the Copa del Rey
The balance is slightly favorable to the Madrid team, who has won the title four times against the Barcelona team. This will be the first time The classic will define the crown in the Cartujaafter having measured four occasions in Valencia and one in Santiago Bernabéu, Vicente Calderón and La Romareda. The duel is agreed for the Saturday, April 26 at a time to be defined.
The first time they met was in the final of the President of the Republic’s Cup, less than a month before the start of the Civil War. Real Madrid won from Paco Bru by 2-1 with many of Eugenio and Lecue that allowed a triumphal farewell of the legendary Ricardo Zamora.
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Barcelona responded in the final of the 1968 Generalissimo Cup, with a 1-0 win at the Santiago Bernabéu thanks to an autogol of Fernando Zunzunegui at the beginning of the clash, and in 1974 he won Real Madrid again, now in Vicente Calderón, 4-0, a result that allowed him to take it out of the 0-5 Cruyff
The final was played by Spanish players before the Prohibition of foreign players In the cupo tournament and Luis Molowny’s team took the rematch without Rinus Michels men could avoid it. Carlos Santillana, Benito Rubiñán, Ico Aguilar and José Martínez ‘Pirri’ sealed the win.
Nine years later at the Romareda it won The Barcelona of the Argentine César Luis MenottI (2-1), which had Bernd Schuster and Diego Maradona in their ranks. Víctor Muñoz and Santillana marked in a clash that came with equality at the end, but decided somewhat from Marcos Alonso. For the memory was the manga cut of the German midfielder, who would later end up wearing white.
Victoria Barcelona repeated in 1990 at Luis Casanova Valenciano in the middle of the vulture. The picture directed by Johan Cruyff won 2-0 to the Welshman John Benjamin Toshack with a target in each period of Guillermo Amor and Julio Salinas.
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The last two finals between both teams have been played in Mestalla with Victoria for Real Madrid. In 2011, Cristiano Ronaldo In the extension he sealed the 1-0 with which Jose Mourinho’s painting won that of Pep Guardiola, and in 2014 the galloping of the Welshman Gareth Bale defined the contest in favor of the block already directed by the Italian Carlo Ancelotti after Marc Bartra had matched the so-old of Argentine Ángel Di Maria.
Barcelona faces this new classic willing to expand its advantage at the head of the Palmares, in which it accumulates 31 titles, seven more than Athletic, and Real Madrid to get its twenty -first crown.