Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid Preview: Copa del Rey 2nd Leg

Atletico Madrid will have to beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp for the first time in ten years if they are to reach the final of the Copa del Rey. Los Rojiblancos need at least two goals (1.19) to progress to the final, as the first leg ended 2-1 in favor of Barcelona at Vicente Calderón.

Diego Simeone’s Atleti cannot be underrated in knockout football, as we have seen in the past. A win for Atletico Madrid at Camp Nou is priced at (4.91) by Sportybet

FC Barcelona will hope to qualify for their first final of 2016-17 Tuesday when they host Atletico Madrid to the Camp Nou for the second leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final. Barcelona is considered the favorites to progress to the final and are quoted at odds of (1.67) with Sportybet.

The Blaugrana will approach this match with some freshness as they played previously against Atletico Bilbao - with 6 players rested ahead of today's game, winning 3-0 on Saturday.

Atletico veteran forward Fernando Torres, whose two goals gave Atletico their last win at Barca, could get his second consecutive start on Tuesday. Torres scored both goals in Saturday's 2-0 home win over Leganes which kept Atletico in fourth place in La Liga with 39 points.

The Atletico hero - Torres is offered at high odds of (8.73) with Sportybet to score the first goal of this match. Lionel Messi, who scored Barcelona's second goal in club's routine 3-0 win over Atletic Bilbao to become Barca's top scorer from free kicks - with 27 goals is (1.75) to score anytime. Paco Alcacer, who netted his first league goal for Barca since joining from Valencia last year Saturday is priced at (4.94) to score. Atleti's key man Griezmann is (7.24) to score the first goal anytime in the match.

While Barcelona might have had the home supremacy over Atletico Madrid, Simeone's men have managed to eliminate the Catalans from the Champions League two times and also beaten them to the LaLiga title back when Gerardo Martino was the coach at the Camp Nou.

This will be a keenly contested encounter, with the two teams offered by the company at a price of (4.02) to share the spoils after ninety minutes. The punters are advised to put their stakes on both teams to score in this meeting at odds of (1.59). Any chance of Atletico Madrid keeping a clean sheet comes in at (5.26).

Barcelona: WWWDWWAtletico: WDDDLW

Barcelona (4-3-3): Cillessen; Roberto, Mascherano, Umtiti, Alba; Busquets, Rakitic, Gomes; Messi, Suarez, ArdaAtletico (4-2-3-1): Moya; Juanfran, Godin, Savic, Filipe; Saul, Gabi; Koke, Carrasco; Torres, Griezmann

Kick-off: 9:00 pm

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