Athletic Club

Cultural Leonesa-Athletic will also be played on Tuesday at 21:00, while Alavés and Rayo Vallecano will be played on Wednesday at 21:00 in Mendizorroza.

"Now we have to get up after a blow that has been ugly for us. You can lose in many ways, but when you lose 4-0 to rest the opponent has been quite superior to you," added the red-white coach, who lost 5-0 to Barcelona in the semi-final of the Spanish Supercup.

The red-white team has already scored four goals in the first half, unable to stop the flood of blaugranas. In the second half, with the match decided, the pace of the crash has dropped considerably.

The other two quarter-finals will be Real Madrid-FC Barcelona and Madrid-CFF-Tenerife. The matches will be played in the first week of February, Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5.

The qualifiers will be played in a single game and will be held on 13, 14 or 15 January.

"Having seen it, being natural and saying things as you think... you have to be a little careful many times, but it is true that it is annoying for our fans. Perhaps the forms were not right, but it is probably like playing out of the house tomorrow because we will not have many followers," regrets the red-white striker. Athletic coach Ernesto Valverde, however, has again been more pragmatic. "We are happy here," he said.

Ernesto Valverde's Athletic arrived at around 22:50 and went straight to the Park Hyatt Hotel, where the organizers have received players. This Tuesday, Athletic will train at 18:00 (Basque time) at the King Abdullah Stadium, following the press conference that Iñaki Williams and Ernesto Valverde will offer from 17:15.

Osasuna and Athletic will play league matches on Saturday, January 24, and Real Sociedad and Alavés on Sunday 25.

The red-white team held their last working session in Lezama this morning, and after arriving in Saudi Arabia, the bilbaine team will be staying at the Hyatt Jeddah Hotel.

Wednesday will be the twelfth game of the red-whites in that tournament. In addition, Valverde has a chance to win his third Supercup, a match with coaches Cruyff and Guardiola.

Osasuna and Athletic split points (1-1) in the derbi played this Saturday in El Sadar. At the end of the match, Guruzeta stressed the importance of giving a good image. 

Osasunaand Athleticwill play a derbi in El Sadar on the 18th day of the EA Sports League.

Last Tuesday, after Iñaki Williams trained in San Mamés, he said to the media, "Playing in Arabia is bullshit."  Today, at a press conference, Valverde expressed his opinion on these statements and made it clear that going to Arabia is prestigious and that they must be very careful about the statements they make. 

Athletic will play this Saturday 's derbi against Osasuna in El Sadar. Valverde has pointed out that he is a strong rival and difficult to beat, but the goal is to recover the tips left on the road.

Fans, mostly families, have been in the stands of San Mamés since an hour before the start of the training. The wait has been threatened with music by the red-white club. The footballers have been greeted with a warm ovation by fans as they jumped onto the lawn on schedule.

"Moving the tournament to another country is not easy for fans. We seem to be playing out of the house there, and if we were here we would have a lot of followers next to us," the Athletic captain added.

In the King's Cup (the draw will begin at 13:00), Alavés, Athletic, Osasuna and Real Sociedad are ranked; in the Queen's Cup (the draw will begin at 16:30), Real and Athletic will meet their rivals.