{"id":20753,"date":"2024-01-19T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/20753\/barcelona-to-face-athletic-club\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:33:33","slug":"barcelona-to-face-athletic-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=20753","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona to face Athletic Club in Copa del Rey quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona to face Athletic Club in Copa del Rey quarterfinal\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona are set to face Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals following Friday&#39;s draw, while Atl\u00e9tico Madrid face Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>Barca came from behind to beat Unionistas de Salamanca 3-1 on Thursday, securing a place in the last 16 of the competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite an unconvincing performance, Xavi&#39;s side bounced back from Sunday&#39;s 4-1 defeat to Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final, piling pressure on the coach.<\/p>\n<p>23-time Copa winners Athletic, led by former Bar\u00e7a coach Ernesto Valverde, won 2-0 against Alav\u00e9s to qualify.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Young Barcelona striker Marc Guiu scored a winner when the team faced Athletic Club in La Liga in October. <cite>Photo by JOSEP LAGO\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Only Barca have won the Copa more times than Athletic, lifting the trophy for the 31st time in 2021 with a 4-0 victory over their quarter-final opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Atl\u00e9tico ousted Copa holders Real Madrid with a 4-2 extra-time victory at the Metropolitano on Thursday, and the <em>Rojiblancos<\/em> will play again at home against Sevilla.<\/p>\n<p>Used to competing for European places, Sevilla are struggling in La Liga this season in 17th position and have already been eliminated from continental competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise, La Liga leaders Girona are playing Mallorca, a team that has yet to concede a goal in the Copa this season.<\/p>\n<p>Celta Vigo, three-time finalist, seeking their first Copa title, will host Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-finals will be played as single matches on January 23, 24 and 25.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona to face Athletic Club in Copa del Rey quarterfinal\u060c Barcelona are set to face Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals following Friday&#39;s draw, while Atl\u00e9tico Madrid face Sevilla. Barca came from behind to beat Unionistas de Salamanca 3-1 on Thursday, securing a place in the last 16 of the competition. &#8211; Stream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7926,1442,1729,7511,7512,2283,135,7513],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-athletic","tag-barcelona","tag-club","tag-copa","tag-del","tag-face","tag-quarterfinal","tag-rey"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20755,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}