The Celtic deleted to the Barcelona in the last precedent of Glass

The Celtic of Vigo will be the rival of the FC Barcelona in the eighth of final of the Glass of the King 2017-18. The party of gone will play the week of 3 January in the stadium of Balaídos and, the one of turn, in the one of the day 10 in the Camp Nou. The Galicians already showed that they are a hard bone of roer in the party of LaLiga, in which they achieved to add a meritorio tie in the coliseo Barcelona.

Another data to take into account is the last precedent of the Glass of the King in which Celtic of Vigo and FC Barcelona saw the faces. It was in the semifinals of the season 2000-01 and the Galician team achieved the pass to the following round leaving went to the Barcelona, that were not able to trace back an adverse result in the gone.

The celestial won the gone like venues by 3-1 and took advantage of the advantage in the turn to attain a tie in the Camp Nou (1-1) and access to the final of this edition of the Glass of Rey, where fell in front of the Real Saragossa by a result of 3-1.

Favourable balance to the Barcelona

In spite of that the last precedent favours to the Celtic of Vigo, the total balance of eliminatory coperas played between the Galician team and the FC Barcelona decants for the culés. The group culé attained four classifications in front of the Celtic of the six times in which they found in the history of the tournament, by only two celestial victories.

Specifically in the round of eighth of final, found until in four occasions, with balance in favour of the FC Barcelona, again. The Barcelona team obtained the note to chambers in the seasons 1942-43, 1969-70 and 1982-83, whereas the Celtic did it in the 1976-77.