Athletic Club 4-2 Barcelona (AET): Xavi's side knocked out of Copa del Rey

There will be no Copa del Rey success for Barcelona this season, as their involvement in the competition has come to an end. Xavi Hernandez’s side were defeated 4-2 by Athletic Club after an enthralling 120 months at San Mames.

Inaki and Nico Williams' extra-time strikes PILE the pressure on Xavi... as Catalans throw away 2-1 lead to crash out of Copa del Rey

Iñaki Williams went straight from being knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations with Ghana to knocking Barcelona out of the Spanish Cup.

On Monday he was a substitute as Ghana failed to win their final group game and on Tuesday, as soon as their fate was sealed, he was on a plane back to Europe.

He landed in Paris at 6am on Wednesday from where his club had a private jet waiting to take him to Bilbao - it was worth it.

With 107 minutes gone of Athletic's epic Copa del Rey quarter-final, on as a substitute, he ran on to Asier Villalibre's cross. His first shot hit the post but he turned in the rebound to put Athletic 3-2 up.

They saw out the second half of extra time with Nico Williams, Iñaki's brother, adding a fourth to eliminate Xavi's Barcelona – robbing him of his best chance to win the trophy he needs to win this season to keep his job into next year.

It ended badly for Barça; it started badly too. They were behind after just 35 seconds – incredible to think that twice previously this season they had made an even worse start to a game conceding after 17 seconds against Granada and 18 seconds against Alaves.

This was the fourth time they had conceded in a game inside the first two minutes, and the ninth time they had been 1-0 down inside 20 minutes. What does Xavi say to them before the go out on to the pitch?

The goal stemmed from a mix-up down the right. Jules