This past Thursday, the FC Barcelona was able of asestar a hit to his two eternal rival with so only two goals, those that marked Luis Suárez and Leo Messi to seal the note course to the semifinals of the Glass of the King 2017-18, deleting like this to the group 'perico'.
The RCD Espanyol arrived to the turn of quarter-finals after having won to the FC Barcelona in the party of gone of the eliminatory, by an escueto 1-0 that served to break a series of imbatibilidad of the Barça of 29 consecutive parties along the present season. During all the week, the ones of Quique Sánchez Flores had lived with the illusion to be able to delete to his eternal rival, the Barça.
And they were not alone. After the elimination of the Real Madrid to hands of the Leganés, all the followers merengues, especially the most radical, wished that the Espanyol deleted also to the FC Barcelona for of this way not to feel so bad, and forget during some minutes of the ridiculous deafening that is doing the Real Madrid this season, and that increases seeing the numbers of the Barcelona.
Double 'estocada' of the Barça of Valverde
It did not go like this, since the Barça did not make grantings. In spite of that podría have won by a more been bulky marker, the 2-0 was sufficient to seal the access to semifinals of Glass of Rey and, in addition to causing the disappointment of the espanyolistas, give also a new psychological hit to the fans merengues, whose team will not form part of the semifinals.
The FC Barcelona follows showing a solvency tremenda this campaign under the control of Ernesto Valverde that, on the contrary that Zinedine Zidane, yes is knowing manage his staff wonderfully, using to the big majority of the players with frequency. In the weeks to come, the madridismo will have to see again play to the Barça by television... This time already in 'semis' of Glass.