The draw for the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, held this Friday in the
Ciudad del Fútbol
, has brought interesting duels between Rayo Vallecano and Barcelona, Alcoyano and Athletic and two classics from the Primera such as Valencia and Seville.
After eliminating Cornellà in extra time, Barcelona will have to visit Rayo Vallecano, rival in the Second Division.
In addition, the innocent hand of
Juan Esnáider
also led to the Betis-Real Sociedad, Valladolid-Levante, Alcoyano-Athletic, Navalcarnero-Granada, Girona-Villarreal and Almería-Osasuna duels.
The qualifying rounds will be played in a single match on January 26, 27 and 28.
Valencia dominates
Seville and Valencia will meet next week at the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium in the knockout round of the eighth match of the Copa del Rey, a competition in which both teams have met
16 times
with a balance of eleven rounds surpassed by the Valencian players and five for the Sevillian team.
However, in the six most recent confrontations there is a balance of forces, with three cup rounds beaten by each team.
The first tie between the two teams, which was won by Valencia, dates back to the 1929-1930 campaign and the most recent, in which the Mestalla team also won, the 2011-2012, with a Valencian victory by 1 -0 at Mestalla and victory for Sevilla 2-1 in the second leg.
Sevilla is, along with Barcelona, the team that Valencia has faced the most times in the Copa del Rey with those sixteen qualifiers in a tournament in which they have never met in a final.
It so happens that in six of the seasons in which Valencia eliminated Sevilla, they reached the final of the tournament, with two trophies obtained, and that in the 51-52 campaign a tiebreaker match was necessary in Madrid.
The Andalusian team eliminated Valencia for the last time in this competition in the 2008-2009 campaign, in which it was the penultimate match between the two clubs.
Fifth Athletic-Alcoyano
Club Deportivo Alcoyano and Athletic Club will meet for the fifth time in the KO tournament.
The first occasion was in the 1944-1945 season, the only one in which the Alicante team managed to get the rojiblancos down.
It was in the round of 16 after 3-3 registered in the first leg at San Mamés (Iriondo 2, 1 from a penalty, and Panizo / Pastor 2, 1 from a penalty, and Quico) and the 2-0 of the return leg at El Collao with the goals of Costa and Pastor.
In the 1967-1968 campaign, Alcoyano and Athletic met again.
The Bilbao team overcame the tie after winning 1-4 in Alcoy (Txetxu Rojo 2 and Uriarte / Alonso) and 1-0 in Bilbao (Argoitia).
Two decades later, in the 1984-1985 season, Athletic returned to the blue-white team after beating both El Collao, 0-1 (Sarabia), and San Mamés, 5-0 (Sarabia 2, Argote 2 and Endika).
The last cup clash between the two teams was just over six years ago in a knockout round of the 2015-2016 season.
The first leg, played in Alcoy, ended in a 1-1 draw by Francis Ferrón and Borja Viguera and in the second leg Viguera scored again to seal the rojiblancos' pass.
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