Barça extend their dismal run without a win away from home in the Champions League round of 16

After three years of absence, after the eliminations in the two previous editions in phase of groups, the FC Barcelona returned to the eighth of final of the Champions League this Wednesday. The culés played a positive party regarding intensity and ideas, but remained short to be able to surpass to a very limited Naples, which besides extended the Barcelona negative series regarding playing far of the City Condal in this instance of the competition.

And it is that with this tie to a so much in Diego Armando Maradona, with goals of Lewandowski and Osimhen, the Barça ensured that they can fulfil 9 years in which the Barcelona do not win a party like visitors in the phase of eighth of final of the Champions. With some Naples in crisis seemed the ideal occasion to leave backwards this negative register, which of course also includes the absence of three years that broke this Wednesday.

The Barça has not been able to go back to this version that arrollaba in Europe

That last triumph of the Catalan entity far of his field in the phase of the 16 better was in the season 2015-16, in which with goals of Leo Messi, surpassed to the Arsenal (0-2). In that duel the Argentinian marked that remembered goal in which it finish leaving seated to Petr Cech with a threaten sensacional after one against of Neymar, closing the triumph with a penalti for the team of Luis Enrique, classifying finally with a 5-1 in the global.

Since, the Barça has not been able to achieve a triumph far of house in what it was this series of four following years in which it contested the gone like visitor. The balance of these parties were of a defeat (4-0 in Paris in 2017) and three ties (1-1 in front of Chelsea in 2018, 0-0 in Lyon in 2019 and 1-1 in Naples in 2020). That result of the 2020 repeated in this opportunity, remembering besides that in the 2020/2021, with Ronald Koeman in the bench culé, the Barça did not happen of the 1-1 in the turn in the Park of the Princes in front of the PSG.