Barcelona take on the visitors Athletic Bilbao in the second leg of round 16 match in Copa del Rey. The match will be played on Wednesday, January 11th at Camp Nou (Barcelona). The first leg ended with 2-1 win of Basque side.
Barcelona have problems in the beginning of the year. The team lost their first-leg matchup to Athletic, 1-2, and followed it with 1-1 draw against Villarreal thanks to Messi’s late equalizer. As the result, the team is now in danger of being eliminated from the domestic cup and moved down on third place in the league. Of course, both matches were played on the road, but expectation of the team is always high and Real maintain handicap. The team passed one round on the competition, eliminating Hercules, 1-1, 7-0. Enrique’s team return to home stadium and they get a great chance for positive result as they have recorded nine win, three draws and one defeat at own arena this season.
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Despite two sent-off players in the first leg at San Mames, Athletic Bilbao took 2-1 win in the first match over the titleholders. The team is currently on four-match undefeated run but all these matches were played at own stadium. The team isn’t that strong in away games as they have recorded only three away win with two draws and seven defeats in 12 matches on the road.
First-leg win ended five-match losing streak of Athletic in matches against Barcelona. As to the results of Basque side in Catalonia, they won their recent match at Camp Nou back in 2001. We should expect fierce Barcelona to show their full strength but Athletic should avoid thrashing loss in this match.
Prediction for the match: Athletic to win with +3.0 Asian handicap.
