The motivational factors in this cup final are self-explonatory so I am not touching that part at all.

The teams know each other extremely well, and they have played a lot of tight matches recently.

这次杯赛决赛的动机因素是不言自明的，所以我不会触及那部分。

两支球队彼此非常了解，最近他们打了很多激烈的比赛。

Bilbao surprised Barca in the supercopa at the same venue in Sevilla in January, but Barcelona won both of the league matches in the same month. Both by a goal, but the scorelines flatter Bilbao in both games, they did score from rather limited number of goal scoring chances, and it would be a lot fairer to have a total of 0,1 - 4,5 from those two games.

The class difference showed then, and that was only the beginning of the good run where Barcelona has been since, they have been clearly the best team in La Liga, whereas the good form of Bilbao has seemingly been vanishing after the good managerial change to Marcelino.

As we know Bilbao lost last year's cup final to Real Sociedad only two weeks ago, it was a narrow 0-1, but Real Sociedad managed to narrow Bilbao's chances to a few, and it was a rather comfortable win.

In the league match last week Bilbao did rotate their whole sguad to rest the players, only keeper Simon started from their optimal lineup. Two of the defenders were sidelined through injury, Yuri and Yarei, and neither is planned to start tonight either, which is defensively a big blow. Otherwise the squad should be fit and ready.

Barcelona have been outstanding recently, they did lose the Classico by 2-1, and it was their first loss in the league since early December. A draw perhaps would had been the fairest result in Madrid, and it can also be considered as unlucky they got kicked out of Champions league v PSG, but performance-wise the only complaint I can really make is the poor performance vs Valladolid after returning from the international break.

The injury situation has also improved recently as both Araujo and Pique are fit to start in the defense, otherwise the squad in unchanged and very strong, especially Dest seems to have found self-confidence to become another Alba-like player to help in the attacking on the right side. I have talked about Barcelona a lot if you want to read more check the previous posts.

I find it impossible to find more words to praise Messi though, and his will likely become the top scorer in all Spanish cup finals of all times tonight, he has scored 7 final goals so far.

Historically this is by the way a meeting between two sides who have scored most cup final goals in the history. Barcelona lead with 94 goals, Bilbao are 2nd with 65, Real Madrid 3rd with 58. Too bad for the Basques that their golden days were mostly some 50 years ago, the present belongs to Barcelona.

I am expecting a hugely entertaining and hot game at Sevilla tonight, but if the better team wins it will be FC Barcelona.

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毕尔巴鄂在1月份的超级杯比赛中让巴萨大吃一惊，但巴塞罗那在同一个月里赢得了两场联赛。两场比赛都领先一球，但两场比赛的比分都让毕尔巴鄂受益，因为他们的进球机会相当有限，如果两场比赛的比分都是0-1 ， 4-5，那就公平多了。

从那时起，等级的差异就显现出来了，而这仅仅是巴萨良好表现的开始，从那以后，他们一直是西甲最好的球队，而毕尔巴鄂的良好状态似乎在马塞利诺的帅位变动后消失了。

据我们所知，毕尔巴鄂在两周前的杯赛中决赛中以0-1败给皇家社会，但皇家社会设法将毕尔巴鄂的机会缩小到几次，这是一场相当轻松的胜利。

在上周的联赛中，毕尔巴鄂确实轮换了整个阵容让球员们休息，只有门将西蒙首发。两名后卫因伤缺阵，尤里和亚雷，他们都没有计划在今晚首发，这对防守是一个巨大的打击。否则，球队应该已经准备好了。

巴萨最近表现出色，他们在联赛中1-2输了国家德比，这是他们自12月初以来在联赛中第一次失利。平局也许会在马德里最公正的结果,它也可以被认为是不幸的,巴萨欧冠出局，因此能更专注国内比赛。

最近阿劳霍和皮克的伤病情况也有所改善，他们都可以在后防线上首发，除此之外球队的阵容没有改变，而且非常强大，尤其是德斯特似乎找到了成为另一名像阿尔巴一样的球员的自信，在右侧帮助进攻。我已经说了很多关于巴塞罗那的事，如果你想读更多的话，请查看之前的帖子。

我已经找不出更多的词语来赞美梅西了，今晚他很可能成为西班牙杯所有决赛的最佳射手，到目前为止他已经进了7个绝杀球。

从历史上看，这是两支在杯赛决赛中进球最多的球队的相遇。巴塞罗那以94粒进球领先，毕尔巴鄂以65粒进球排名第二，皇家马德里以58粒进球排名第三。不幸的是，巴斯克人的黄金时代大多在50年前，而现在属于巴塞罗那。

我期待今晚有一场精彩的比赛，但如果是更好的球队获胜，那将是巴塞罗那。