The Barcelona will confront to the Athletic in chambers of Glass

The Athletic Club of Bilbao will be the rival of the FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Glass of the King 2015-16, after the draw celebrated this Friday in the Living room Luis Aragonese of the City of the Football. The "lions" carry suffering during the last years to the culés in Glass of Rey

Ticket - Gone in FC Barcelona vs Athletic Bilbao - League J20
The Classical - Gone in / Ticket FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid
Ticket - Gone in for all the parties of the FC Barcelona

The draw celebrated this Friday to the midday in the City of the Football of Brush Them has served to know the pairings of quarter-finals of the Glass of the King 2015-16. The FC Barcelona, that expected to find with an affordable rival like Mirandés or UD The Palms, finally will have to confront to an old known in the domestic competition, against which carries playing during several consecutive years in distinct rounds, although especially in the final. It treats of the Athletic of Bilbao, that under the control of Ernesto Valverde will do all the possible for complicating the things to the culés, for the time being the big favourites to do with the title.

The FC Barcelona won the past season the final of the Glass of the King 2015-16 against the Athletic of Bilbao in the Camp Nou (3-1) thank you partly to a spectacular party of Leo Messi, that annotated a golazo -was about to to win the Prize Puskas- leaving of until five opponents from the centre of the field, with included pipe, to beat to Gorka Iraizoz with a shot crossed and raso. Months later, in the Supercopa of Spain, would be the Athletic the one who would take advantage of the hard pre-season of the ones of Luis Enrique to give the surprise winning 4-0 in Bilbao and empatando to one in the Camp Nou, carrying of this form the only title lost by the Barça in 2015.

Draw of Glass of Rey and reactions

This will do without place to doubts that the Barça go out much more concentrated and motivated in the quarter-finals against the Athletic, with the will that it do not repeat the history of does some months to attain access to the semifinals of the tournament. The culés will play the party of gone on 20 January in Bilbao and the one of turn the 27 of the same month in the Camp Nou, by what the FC Barcelona will confront thrice followed to the rojiblancos -as sucedió already this same month in front of the Espanyol-, since this Sunday 16 January the Athletic visits the Barcelona sanctuary in League BBVA.

The rest of pairings of quarter-finals of Glass of the King 2015-16 have been Celtic-Athletic, Valencia-The Palms and Seville-Mirandés, having the club hispalense a lot of possibilities to classify for the semifinals and redirect the course in this season to the orders of Unai Emery, since they follow alive in Europe League and every time attaining better results in the League BBVA. Precisely the sevillanos and the Athletic, for the time being, are the others two favourite clubs, beside the Barça, to do with the Spanish tournament in the final of the month of May.

These are the clashes of quarter-finals of the Glass of the King 2015-2016: