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The elimination in the Copa del Rey at the hands of Osasuna (0-2) is a stone in shoe of Espanyol, more for him Los Rojillos military walk than by the fact itself of falling to a higher-ranking rival. The truth is that in the brief history of the parakeet club in the Second Division (this is the fifth season that it lives) will continue with the stigma of never having been able to remove a First Class opponent from the KO tournament.
The first to fall in luck (or in disgrace) was the Barcelona, in the round of 32 of the 1969-70 season. Then, Espanyol even surpassed the azulgrana in the first leg, played in Sarrià (2-1, with goals from Amas, Giralt and Alfonseda), but succumbed in the return, at Camp Nou (3-1, Gallego scored , Martí Filosia, Pujol and Mingorance).
Almost two decades later, the Primera rival with whom the blue and white club was measured while in Segunda was Sevilla, in 30th of the 1989-90 campaign. Neither was the thing too uneven, since in Sarrià the parrots maintained a worthy 0-0, but it was in the Sánchez Pizjuán where the Hispanics tipped the balance in their favor with a solitary target of Francisco, which over the years would become a Espanyol legend.
That game brought a tail, since it was about a reissue of the one originally played seven days earlier, with a clear local victory by four goals to zero, but that had to be repeated because Sevilla, when aligning Martagón, exceeded the quota for players of the subsidiary.
Anyway, Espanyol and Sevilla would meet again in the Cup with the parrots as a Second team, in the 1993-94 season, and with the same outcome. Then the Andalusians already decided the tie in their favor in the first leg, with a 0-1 work by Simeone, which would be decisive, since at Sánchez Pizjuán they did not go beyond 2-2, with the goals of Suker (from a penalty), again the ‘Cholo’, by Francisco (now for the parrots) and Fonseca.
At global computation Espanyol as a Second team, has played with this season 11 qualifying rounds, of which he has surpassed six and fallen in another five, always against First-class rivals except in the 1962-63 season, when he was eliminated at the first exchange against a Cádiz that was also active in the silver category. The blue and white challenge, however, is not to see each other again in the current situation.