Cup bombing in the semifinals. The Copa del Rey will have a dream penultimate round, with a Madrid-Barça team that, yes, automatically activates plan C that the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) had in the event of a duel between the two main rivals of Spanish football. While the other duel, Osasuna-Athletic could be played between February 8, the first leg, and March 1, the second leg, El Clásico installs gibberish on the calendar, caused by the commitments of both clubs, which the RFEF had already foreseen. However, the RFEF has chosen to unify the date and the confrontation between rojillos and Bilbao will be in the same week as Madrid-Barça.
Whatever the ball was extracted, Real Madrid could never have played the first leg on February 8, since that day he already has a commitment. Another semifinal, this time the Club World Cup. Seattle Sounders, Al Ahly or Auckland City will be the rivals of the white team in the Prince Moulay Abdellah of Rabat. The next available date, February 14, is Barça that has the problem, since they face Manchester United on the 16th (Camp Nou, 6:45 p.m.) in the Europa League playoffs. So, heGoing out will have to borrow the original date of the return: March 1 or 2, or even February 28.
This allows Real Madrid to play a postponed league match against Elche, because of the Mundialito, that day 15, venting a domestic tournament where he would already balance the calendar with the rest after recovering this Thursday the pending clash with Valencia (postponed due to the Spanish Super Cup). In this way, although the date is yet to be confirmed by the RFEF, the second leg of the cup semifinal should be played on April 4, 5 or 6, given the impossibility of fitting the match between Madrid and Barça into another gap in the calendar, due to the various commitments of both clubs. Be that as it may, and after the juggling caused by a shoehorned Club World Cup (the dates were known in December, with the calendar already closed), there will be enough time to prepare the potential final, which will take place in La Cartuja on the 6th of May. The game that the four survivors look forward to.