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Atletico Madrid conscionable hardly held connected to its first-leg vantage against defending champion Barcelona successful the Copa del Rey connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026), advancing to its archetypal Copa last successful 13 years contempt a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to the Catalan club.
Atletico precocious 4-3 connected aggregate acknowledgment to its 4-0 triumph successful the archetypal limb past period successful Madrid.
Diego Simeone's squad volition play successful the last for the archetypal clip since it won its 10th Copa trophy successful the 2012-13 season.
The 2nd limb of the different semifinal betwixt Real Sociedad and Basque Country rival Athletic Bilbao volition beryllium connected Wednesday. Sociedad won 1-0 astatine Athletic past month.
The last volition beryllium successful April successful Seville.
Atletico Madrid's Juan Musso, Johnny Cardoso, and teammates observe aft the match | Photo Credit: Reuters
Barcelona saw itself successful a spread aft being trounced successful the archetypal fractional of the archetypal limb past month, conceding each 4 goals earlier the interruption astatine the Metropolitano stadium.
Barcelona came retired beardown astatine location Tuesday, scoring with Marc Bernal successful the 29th infinitesimal and Raphinha converting a punishment footwear successful first-half stoppage time. Bernal added the 3rd successful the 72nd, leaving the hosts 1 extremity shy from evening the series.
“We knew it was going to beryllium a pugnacious match, it's not casual to flooded a 4-0 defeat,” Raphinha said. “But I'm arrogant of the team. We gave everything we had from the start. We permission disappointed due to the fact that we wanted to beryllium successful the final, and I deliberation we deserved it aft the crippled that we played.”
Barcelona kept pressing but Atletico's stout defence held on.
“Maybe it wasn't our champion match, but it was a crippled of 180 minutes,” Atletico goalkeeper Juan Musso said. “They had everything going their mode but we suffered erstwhile we had to suffer. We knew it wasn't going to beryllium easy, but successful the extremity we made it to the final.”
Barcelona mislaid defender Jules Koundé to an wounded 13 minutes into the match. He was replaced by Alejandro Balde, who successful the 2nd fractional asked to beryllium substituted arsenic well. Forward Robert Lewandowski missed the lucifer due to the fact that of an injury.
Barcelona was looking to repetition arsenic Copa champion aft defeating Real Madrid successful past year's final.
Barcelona is the Spanish league leader. It has a four-point person implicit second-place Real Madrid. Atletico is third, 13 points down Barcelona.
Both Barcelona and Atletico are successful the circular of 16 of the Champions League.
