The FC Barcelona will continue with his career in the Glass of the King 2017-18 confronting to the RCD Espanyol in the round of chambers. The culés will play the party of gone the week of 17 January, in Cornellá, and the party of turn the week of 24 January. Ernesto Valverde, technician of the Barcelona group, has given his first impressions on the eliminatory.
The Txingurri has admitted that it treats of an eliminatory special, by his rivalry when treating of the derbi by excellence of the city of Barcelona. "It is an eliminatory attractive, beautiful, because the party is a derbi. Inside what there was, with important teams, the Espanyol is one of them and has touched us", has commented.
"Inside what there was, with important teams, the Espanyol is one of them and has touched us"
The technician of the FC Barcelona also has wanted to recalcar the importance of the party and to happen to the following phase, that is not another that the one of the semifinals of the Glass of Rey. "It is a party in which it exists an extra motivation, so much by part of the rival as by you same. Always it is a difficulty added, but the prize is important: happen to semifinals", has signalled.
The dangers of the Espanyol
Ernesto Valverde also stood out the capacity of the RCD Espanyol for sobreponerse to adverse situations. "It is truth that the Espanyol has crossed some moment of difficulty in the season, but is a team that has level, that the eliminatory previous had it very desfavorable against the Raise and went with determination to Valencia and took out a 0-2 and traced back. This says a lot of the level that has. Besides, the classification of the league does not reveal the possibilities that has the Espanyol", sentenced.