The curious fact that allows Barça to continue trusting in winning the Champions League

The defeat in front of the Shakhtar Donetsk (1-0) represents a backwards important step for the ones of Xavi Hernádez. Although the culés follow depending on yes same to ensure the classification to the eighth of final and the leadership of the Group H, the image left in Hamburg left a lot of worry in a technical body that follows without finding an eleven ideal and the form to explode the quality of his staff.

However, the surprising fall in front of the Ukrainian group is not of the all bad for the Barça regarding record refers . Further of the financial cost of the result, to the Barça is used to to go him well after losing against the Shakhtar, something that has sucedido already in three opportunities. The first, in the 2004/05 (2-0), when the team of Frank Rikjaard finish winning LaLiga after five seasons in white.

The good augurio of the last defeat in front of the Shakhtar for the Barça

The second fall in Champions in front of the ones of Donetsk arrived in the last day of the phase of groups of the season 2008/09. The ones of Pep Guardiola already had ensured the leadership of his group and finished falling in the Camp Nou by 2-3 in a party where the Barcelona group played with acting. Gladkyy (Doublet) and Fernandinho converted by the Shakhtar, whereas Sylvinho and Sergio Busquets discounted by the culés.

After that defeat, the Barça was an aplanadora in eighth against the Olympique Lyon (6-3 global) and in chambers in front of the Bayern Munich (5-1 global). In semis touched to suffer in front of Chelsea (1-1 global, classification by goal of visitor) before defeating to the Manchester United in the final in Rome (2-0). It was the season of the first triplete Barcelona and, in the second half of the year, the Barça went back to cross with the Shakhtar in the Supercopa European (1-0) way to the historical sextete.