Copa del Rey: Munir El Haddadi brace sends Barcelona past Espanyol

Munir El Haddadi scored both of Barcelona's goals as they recorded a 2-0 win at Espanyol to cruise through in the Copa del Rey.

Holding a 4-1 first-leg advantage from an ill-tempered last-16 clash at the Nou Camp seven days ago, Barca, who were without banned forward Luis Suarez, were never troubled by their cross-city rivals on Wednesday night.

Their hero on the night was 20-year-old forward Munir, who doubled his tally for the season and for this competition with goals in either half as Luis Enrique's side marched on with a 6-1 aggregate victory.

Barca had to cope without Suarez due to a retrospective two-match suspension he incurred for comments allegedly made in the tunnel after the feisty first-leg encounter when two Espanyol players were dismissed.

They did hand a start to Lionel Messi two days after he won his fifth Ballon d'Or award and Barcelona's talisman twice came close to marking the achievement with an early goal.

On both occasions he was denied by goalkeeper Francesco Bardi as he produced some acrobatics to thwart Messi from the edge of the box before pushing away his left-footed try.

Munir then put Barcelona ahead on the night in the 32nd minute after being put through by Messi.

The Argentinian rolled a perfectly-measured pass between the hosts' two centre-backs to allow Munir to move around Bardi, and he remained on his feet long enough to lift a left-footed finish into the net.

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There were few opportunities for either side in the second period as a scrappy affair ensued with seven yellow cards being distributed over the 90 minutes.

But Munir would get his second at the death to wrap up victory on the night for the visitors.

Barcelona survived two offside shouts in the move, firstly against Aleix Vidal and then Munir himself, yet the flag stayed down as the latter tapped home from six yards out.

Meanwhile, Villarreal crashed out of the competition after being beaten 1-0 at home by Athletic Bilbao.

The Yellow Submarine squandered a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 to last year's beaten finalists in the first meeting and they were unable to overcome the deficit on home soil.

Bilbao forward Inaki Williams shrugged off a tackle before breaking the deadlock in the first period with his 10th goal of the season to make it 4-2 overall.

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Former Manchester City striker John Guidetti converted a first-half penalty as Celta Vigo saw off Cadiz to progress.

Celta, 3-0 winners in the first leg, won 2-0 on the night thanks to goals from Guidetti and Dejan Drazic.

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Las Palmas are also through thanks to another 3-2 victory over La Liga's surprise package Eibar.

In the first leg, Figueroa Momo's 90th-minute goal had given Las Palmas an away win after two Eibar players were sent off and they were on course for the next round when David Junca's own goal put them ahead in the second leg.

Two goals in as many minutes from Borja Ekiza and Sergi Enrich levelled it up at 4-4 on aggregate, though, before first-leg hero Momo and David Garcia scored to send Las Palmas through.

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