Bryan Power

THE PLAY: REGULATION Barcelona FC 0.0 (-125)

Winner here advances to the Copa del Rey Final (on 4/26) and will face Real Madrid, who won an AET thriller on Tuesday in the other two-legged semifinal. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid played to a 4-4 draw in their first leg, so it's winner take all in the second leg. I think there's a good chance Barca wins this in regulation and will play them Draw No Bet. So if there is AET, then we'll take a push. 

That first leg was pretty wild in that Atletico scored twice in the opening six minutes, only for Barca to then fire four into the back of the net to take a two-goal advantage. But Marcos Llorente cut that deficit in half in the 84th minute, then it was Alexander Sorloth with the equalizer in stoppage time. Three weeks later, here at the Wanda Metropolitano, the teams met again in league play. It was an unfortunate case of deja vu for Atletico, who scored the first two goals again, only to then allow the next four. This time, however, there would be no comeback and Barca prevailed 4-2. 

Atletico did beat Barca 2-1 back in December in the first league meeting of the season. However, Barca have not lost a single match since that time, going unbeaten in 20 straight across all competitions including winning each of their last six! So no one is going to argue which of the two sides is in better form entering Monday. Barca have now scored an astounding 139 goals in 45 competitive matches this season, a record in Spain. Atletico are shockingly winless over their last five matches overall, which - in addition to losing to Barcelona - includes getting bounced from the Champions League.