The Copa del Rey Final between Barcelona and Athletic Club will face the two teams with the most titles in the history of the tournament and will be measured for the ninth time in the match that will define the monarch.
FC Barcelona is heading for the first title of the season, as is its coach, Ronald Koeman, who is looking to take over the helm of the Barça team, which he arrived at the beginning of this football year to replace Quique Setién.
For its part, Athletic Club will look to repeat the dose to Barça, after winning (3-2) the Spanish Super Cup last January, and at the same time wants to get rid of the bad taste in the mouth for the Final of the Copa del Rey 2020 that he lost a few days ago to the Royal Society.
The team led by Lionel Messi has a favorable balance in the duels of the Copa del Rey final against the Basques, with six finals won by two losses.
In addition, this game for the title comes after last year Valencia cut its dominance as the club that used to impose conditions in this event.
The key men will be, on the one hand, Lionel Messi, who is looking for his 35th title as a Barça player; whereas for the Athletic Club, Iñaki Williams usually hurts to him to the culeros, since it adds 5 goals in 18 parties that has faced them, which represents its greater amount of annotations in front of a club of First Division in Spain .
That’s how it is, a Final between two ‘kings’, because while Barça have 30 Copa del Rey titles, Athletic have 23, making them the most successful in the history of the competition.