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Aritz Aduriz: 'We're a Bit Sick of Seeing Barcelona and Real Madrid Win It All'

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Athletic Bilbao's Aritz Aduriz has hailed the new Copa del Rey format and said other clubs are "a bit sick of" Barcelona and Real Madrid winning everything.

Both Barca and Real were knocked out the Copa in the quarter-final stage, by Athletic and Real Sociedad, respectively, leaving an unexpected last four in Spain's domestic cup competition:

The 2019-20 campaign is the first year of the tournament's new format, where ties are played across only one leg up to the semi-final stages.

As a result, there have been more shocks, including Atletico Madrid's third-round exit to third-tier Cultural Leonesa.