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 meet for the ninth time in the match that will define the monarch.
FC Barcelona will receive the first title of the season, as will its coach, Ronald Koeman, who is trying to make his debut at the helm of the Barça team, which he reached at the beginning of this football year to relieve Quique Setién.
In turn, Athletic Club will look to repeat the dose at Barça, after winning (3-2) the Spanish Super Cup in January last year and, at the same time, want to get rid of the bad taste in the mouth for the 2020 Copa del Rey who lost it a few days ago to Real Sociedad.
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 defeats.
In addition, this title game comes after Valencia reduced its dominance last year as a club that used to impose conditions on this tournament.
The key people will be, on the one hand, Lionel Messi, who is looking for his 35th Barça player title; While for Athletic Club, Iñaki Williams usually hurts the Catalans, as he adds 5 goals in 18 games he has faced, which is the highest number of annotations against a club in the Spanish First Division.
Thus, it is a final between two “kings”, because while Barça has 30 Copa del Rey titles, Athletic has 23, which makes them the most winners in the history of the competition.