Barça to play with the modest L’Hospitalet in the Spanish Cup

Barcelona (FCB).- This Friday the draw for the Spanish Cup sixteenths was held. FC Barcelona was the fourth name to come out of the hat, and fate has dealt them a local derby against L’Hospitalet, who are managed by a former Barça man in Jordi Vinyals. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is Catalonia’s second city in terms of population and it is literally attached to Barcelona, being at the heart of Barcelona Metropolitan Area. The first leg will be on November 9^th at Feixa Llarga Stadium and the return at the Camp Nou on December 21^st. It will be a historic first meeting between the two sides.

First meeting

This is the first time these sides have ever met in an official fixture, although they did meet on a semi-official basis in last season’s Copa Catalunya (Catalonia’s Cup), when Barça beat the Division 2B club 2-0 with goals from Dos Santos and Soriano in what was a largely meaningless game, as Espanyol had already secured the trophy.

The full draw

Cádiz-Valencia; Ponferradina-Madrid; Mirandes-Vila-real; Lepe-Sevilla; Albacete-Atlético Madrid; Oviedo-Athletic Bilbao; Almería-Osasuna; Alcorcón-Zaragoza; Celta-Espanyol; Córdoba-Betis; Racing-Rayo Vallecano; Deportivo-Levante; Mallorca-Sporting; Getafe-Málaga; Real Sociedad-Granada.