In the present season, the Glass of Rey has suffered a change of format of the hand of the Supercopa of Spain. The teams participants in this last tournament, now contested in January, have remained exentos of the first rounds coperas and will join to the competition from dieciseisavos of final, round that will contest to only party of the same way that the previous.
In this way, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia and Athletic of Madrid -the four teams that were in Saudi Arabia to play the Supercopa- will be presents in the draw that will celebrate this same Tuesday to the 13:00 hours (peninsular schedule Spanish) in the City of the Football of Brush Them and that will decide the clashes.
Culés, merengues, colchoneros and ches already know his possible rivals, and are all teams of Second Division B. Badalona, Ebro, Ibiza, Cultural Leonese, Recreational of Huelva, Logroñés, Unionistas of Salamanca and Badajoz will be the possible crosses of the teams supercoperos, remembering the circumstance that the meetings will contest to only party in his stadiums.
Of these eight possible rivals for the Barcelona, the four that have not been matched with the 'supercoperos' will receive equally to rivals of First Division. Until the moment, including the four exentos of the two first rounds, only two teams of the category of gold have remained deleted: the Getafe (lost against the Badalona by 2-1) and the Alavés (in front of the Jaén, by 3-1).
It is necessary to remember that the parties go to contest next Wednesday 22 January, by what will be then when it know what rival will access to the round of eighth of final. It was as it was, the fact to contest the eliminatory to only party will increase the emotion of the competition, as well as the risk of elimination for the 'big'.
The Barça, to recover the throne
The FC Barcelona keeps on being the 'king of Glasses' and pretends to recover the throne of the competition, that the past season escaped with a defeat in the final to hands of Valencia. The culés need titles and the Glass of the King always is a beautiful trophy, although the priority keep on being LaLiga and the Champions League.