IMPORTANT VICTORY TO 'SHARE' GHOSTS
Barça had not beaten a 'big' in the Champions League since 2020
Published:5/10/2023 - 10:11h
Updated:5/10/2023 - 10:11h
FC Barcelona won by the minimum against Porto (0-1) to break an important streak of not being able to win against important teams in Europe since 2020, when they won against Juventus
They have had to happen 1071 days (two years, eleven months and four days) so that the FC Barcelona have been able to win to a team that was between the best seven Leagues of Europe, in the Champions League. The Portuguese championship is, precisely, in the seventh position in the ranking by coefficient of the UEFA, by behind France, Low Countries, Germany, Italy, Spain and England, that leads the classification with sufficient advantage.
It seems an isolated data or with little importance, but the true is that it speaks of the sunk that was the Barcelona group in these last years in the competition. Han Been marked by disappointments, fusses and a feeling that to the team has not reached him to compete. Now, the victory in front of the Port wine has left a new air because, although the Barça has not been brilliant and has cost him horrors suffer, has stepped important to lead his group and, more important still, begin to frighten off the ghosts that so much have pursued him.
The Barça and a dangerous way in Europe
The way of the Barça from the last time that won to a team that was between the first seven Leagues, the Juventus in the phase of groups of the 2020/2021 (0-2, in Turín), has been full of desaciertos and disappointments. In fact, the group culé had remained on the way twice in the liguilla. From this moment, remained deleted in eighth of final in hands of the Paris Saint-Germain (4-1 and 1-1), could not surpass to Bayern (0-3 and 3-0) neither Benfica (3-0 and 0-0) in the 2021/2022.
Yes they had imposed to the Dinamo (1-0 and 0-1), whereas in the following season, the 2022/2023, the history was very alike. They began with a lot of strength with a goleada to Viktoria Plzen (5-1), but went back to fall in the duels against Bayern (0-3 and 2-0) and Inter of Milan (1-0 and 3-3) to remain deleted by second consecutive year in a very early phase. Now, and for the first time in what it seems an eternity, the Barça has won his two first parties of the phase of groups... And it can be key to the hour to take out accounts for the classification to eighth of final.
