The best Spanish moment

Athletic didn’t have the worst luck in the draw for the round of 16 of the Cup, but it wasn’t the best either. The rojiblanco team avoided Barça, Madrid and Atlético but did not touch Ceuta, for example, the ‘Cinderella’ of hype. Espanyol will face the lions, who have suffered more than expected in the 22-23 League but arrive in Bilbao in their best moment of the season after going unbeaten since returning to the competition after the World Cup break. in Qatar.

The parrots are three straight matches in the regularity tournament unbeaten, with two draws in two derbies against Barça at the Camp Nou (1-1) and Girona at the RCDE Stadium (2-2) and an away match against Getafe (1 -2), a result that allowed them to escape relegation. After the point added against those Michael They are penultimate in the First Division classification and are now fourteenth with 17 points, one from the red zone marked by Cádiz, who on Monday suffered one of the worst injustices in memory with a clear offside goal from Elche who removed two points that could be decisive to save the category.

In addition to these three positive results, Espanyol eliminated Celta from the previous KO tie in the game played on their home ground on January 3. Those led by Diego Martinez they need an extension to get the ticket, but darker Y Nico Melamed they were sentenced at minutes 97 and 118 respectively.

The Spaniard only linked a streak like this with five points added to the nine possible on another occasion. It was between days seven and nine when they drew with Valencia and Cádiz and beat Valladolid.

The Catalans have been in the lower zone of the table all season. Their best position was ninth after the first day, something unrepresentative, thirteenth on the ninth page of the calendar and the current fourteenth, the same position they occupied on the eleventh day.