The FC Barcelona will play this Thursday in the New Saint Mamés by seventh occasion, converting like this in the team that more times has visited the new stadium of the Athletic of Bilbao since it finish to build and premièred , in September of 2013.
Of the six previous parties contested by the FC Barcelona in the new Cathedral, four were in League Santander, one in Glass and another in the Supercopa of Spain, these two last the past season, with a balance of two victories for the "lions" and four for the culés.
It fits to remember that the first duel Athletic-Barcelona in the New Saint Mamés played on 1 December 2013, saldándose with triumph of the team of Ernesto Valverde by 1-0 thanks to a goal of Iker Muniain.
In the others three parties of Spanish League was the FC Barcelona the one who carried the cat to the water, when winning by 2-5 in the campaign 2014-2015 (Mikel Rico and Aduriz/Messi, Luis Suárez, Of Marcos, in own door, Neymar Jr and Pedro) and by 0-1 in the two last seasons, the 2015-2016 (Luis Suárez) and 2016-2017 (Rakitic).
The Barça, with win to shine in Bilbao
It can say, in this sense, that is a stadium that, to exception of the 4-0 suffered in the gone of the Supercopa of Spain 2015, gives him quite well to the group trained by Luis Enrique. In this seventh visit to the New Saint Mamés, the Barcelona will go to by all to start with to decant -and if possible sentence- the eighth of final of Glass of the King 2016-17.