MADRID, Jan. 27 (SportsFinding) –
Athletic Club and CD Tenerife will be responsible for opening this Tuesday at Heliodoro Rodríguez the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, a duel to a single game in which those of Gaizka Garitano hope to impose their copero gene before a more worried rival for its situation in LaLiga SmartBank.
The Biscayan team is the second most successful of the competition with 23 titles and its last final was in 2015, but in the last three years it has not reached beyond the quarter, a round that has not been in the last two seasons.
Opposite, a rival who has never been measured in the Cup, who was not among the 16 best in the competition since the 2000-2001 season and who to reach his first quarterfinders since 1995-96 must be charged another 'First' after leaving I went to Valladolid.
The 'Lions' are already warned of the difficulties with this new format and in the round of 16 it had to be the penalties that allowed him to save himself against Elche. Rubén Baraja's team marches to a point in the relegation zone and will surely think more about his match against Sporting of the weekend Heliodoro Rodríguez, where he has not lost in his last four home games and that seems to be filled for Support yours.
The Athletic Club knows that it has the pressure for its highest category and to confirm its favoritism it must forget the doubts that this year drags away from San Mamés, with only one victory, in El Sadar, of eleven exits.
The visit of the rocky Getafe, already eliminated from the 'KO' tournament, will surely cause Garitano, although he travels with all but with a sick Unai Simón and the injured Aduriz and De Marcos, opt for rotations for his first visit to Heliodoro Rodríguez from on September 23, 2009, settled with 1-0 defeat.
– PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTH EIGHTH.
-Tuesday.
Tenerife – Athletic Club 21.00 (peninsular schedule).
-Wednesday.
Cultural Leonesa – Valencia 19.00.
Rayo Vallecano – Villarreal 19.00.
Badajoz – Granada 21.00.
Zaragoza – Real Madrid 21.00.
-Thursday 30.
FC Barcelona – Leganés 19.00.
Real Sociedad – Osasuna 21.00.
Mirandés – Seville 21.00.