The Barça wants to lengthen a magic series: 12 years in quarter-finals of Champions

All what was not to be in quarter-finals will be a failure. The Barça will look for to classify for said round a season more, taking into account that it has done it of form ininterrrumpida from the season 2007-08, just after in the previous campaign (the 2006-07) fell deleted in front of the Liverpool by the minimum (1-2 in the Camp Nou and 0-1 in Anfield).

Since, all have been joys for the culés in this first round of direct elimination, after the phase of groups. Arsenal, Olympique Lyon and Manchester City (in two occasions) and Celtic, Stuttgart, Bayer Leverkusen, AC Milan, PSG and Chelsea (once) have been the rivals of the FC Barcelona in the eighth of final of the Champions League that, from the season 2007-08, have pinned the knee.

Some eliminatory have been memorables, especially by the been bulky results in the Camp Nou. A clear example was the 7-1 against the Bayer Leverkusen (with a historical repóquer of goals of Leo Messi) or also the incredible traced back in front of the PSG (6-1) after having lost 4-0 in the party of gone contested in the Park of the Princes.

To historical level, fits to say that the FC Barcelona so only fell deleted in other two crosses of eighth of final. The first, in the first edition of the Champions League, when before the liguilla played two eliminatory rounds (dieciseisavos and eighth). In that occasion, the Barça was the valid champion and lost in the Camp Nou (2-3) after taking out a 1-1 in the field of the CSKA Moscow.

The second elimination was against Chelsea of Mourinho, an eliminatory very contested in which the Barça won in the gone by 2-1, with included goal of Maxi López, and lost in the turn by 4-2, in a spectacular duel that left us an authentic golazo of Ronaldinho, that in which it struck a balloon detained to the edge of the area, in the half moon, surprising to Cech and to all Stamford Bridge.

The case is that, from 12 years ago, the FC Barcelona reaches the quarter-finals with firm step. Not to do it this year 2020, having obtained a slightly advantageous result in the gone and with the turn in the Camp Nou, would be an authentic disaster for the Barça. And, surely, it would accelerate the exit of Quique Setién that follows waking up doubts.

Last 12 eliminatory of the Barça in 1/8 Champions:

1. 2007-08 · Eighth: Celtic – FCB: 2-3 and 1-0
2. 2008-09 · Eighth: Or. Lyon – FCB: 1-1 and 5-2
3. 2009-10 · Eighth: Stuttgart – FCB: 1-1 and 4-0
4. 2010-11 · Eighth: Arsenal – FCB: 2-1 and 3-1
5. 2011-12 · Eighth: Bayer Leverkusen – FCB: 1-3 and 7-1
6. 2012-13 · Eighth: Milan – FCB: 2-0 and 4-0
7. 2013-14 · Eighth: Manchester City – FCB: 0-2 and 2-1
8. 2014-15 · Eighth: Manchester City – FCB: 1-2 and 1-0
9. 2015-16 · Eighth: Arsenal – FCB: 0-2 and 3-1
10. 2016-17 · Eighth: PSG – FCB: 4-0 and 6-1
11. 2017-18 · Eighth: Chelsea – FCB: 1-1 and 3-0
12. 2018-19 · Eighth: Or. Lyon – FCB: 0-0 and 5-1