Barca Takes Giant Step Towards Copa Del Rey Final | Barca - 2, Atletico Madrid - 1

- Lionel Messi running past Atletico Defenders -

Barcelona Football Club took a giant step in securing a place in the final of the Copa Del Rey 2016-17 with a brilliant 2-1 victory against Atletico Madrid away from home. The clash at the Vicente Calderon arena was decided in favour of FC Barcelona by two brilliant goals from Barca's two top scorers this season - Luis Saurez and Lionel Messi. Barca went 2-0 up by around half an hour in to the clock before Greizman reduced the deficit in the second half. The tie is very interestingly poised with Barca in the front street after securing a first leg victory and also two away goal advantage. Barca could afford to lose the return leg 1-0 and still make the final courtesy of those two sensational away goals. The fun part of all it is that Mascherano and Rakitic are awarded the assists for those goals when their contribution was nothing less than minimal. We will come to that later.

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Barcelona v Athletic Bilbao Preview, Team News and Prediction

Barcelona Team News & Preview

Goal-line technology, or lack thereof, was the story of Barcelona’s last league outing where they lost ground on league leaders Real Madrid after a 1-1 draw at Real Betis. However, Barça are in a good run of form and lost only once in January in eight games. That loss, though, came against Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. Luis Enrique’s side are the Liga top scorers with 52 goals, but six draws thus far have meant they trail Real Madrid by four points and a game in the title race. This game will be the fourth time this season Barça square off to Athletic, having already won twice and lost once. Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez have combined to score 31 of Barça’s 52 league goals this season. Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, and Lucas Digne are out injured, while the rest of the squad is available for selection to Enrique.

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FC Barcelona vs Real Sociedad Copa Dey Rey 2nd Leg Highlights | FCB - 5, Real Soceidad - 2

- Denis Saurez Celebrating Opening the Scoring against Real Soceidad -

FC Barcelona - 5, Real Soceidad - 2 : Copa Del Rey 2nd Leg Highlights

FC Barcelona secured a place in semi-final of 2016-17 Copa Del Rey Semi-Final with another good performance against La Real. Going in to the second leg with one goal lead was a a good thing and it was made better when Denis Saurez opened the scoring in the first half. But the second half of the second leg at Camp Nou was nothing short of crazy with a total of six goal being scored - four by us and two by them. Messi, Saurez and Turan scored along with Denis Saurez who ended the night with two well taken goals in his name. With the 5-2 second leg victory, Barca secured a 6-2 aggregate victory over one of the most feared rivals in La Liga this season; especially one which has been a head-ache for us always.

I came with a desire to be a part of this team and I am feeling better and betterDenis Suarez

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