The FC Barcelona faces this season a complicated phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League 2016-17 in front of Manchester City, Borussia M'Gladbach and Celtic of Glasgow, the first stone of touch in the continental tournament from this 13 September.
In spite of everything, has a very favourable statistics that does that the optimism was still greater of face to the possibilities that the FC Barcelona classify like first of the Group C for the round of eighth of final of the tournament.
And it is that, since it plays liguilla of groups, the Barça is the club that has advanced in more occasions like first (17), whereas it also is the club that has finished invicto more times (10) in this first phase of the competition.
The aim of the ones of Luis Enrique, as always, will be to finish in the first place to achieve the value added that supposes to play the turn of eighth of final in the Camp Nou, in addition to being able to measure to a rival of lower entity that have remained second in another group.
The last time that the Barcelona left to escape the first place of the group was in the season 2006-07, when Chelsea surpassed them, whereas in eighth the Liverpool finish deleting to the culés. It was the last KO of the Barça in said round, since since the culés always have arrived at least until the quarter-finals.
Another of the challenges added of the Barça in the liguilla of groups of the Champions League will be to finish it without losing any meeting. The Barcelona is the club that has achieved it more times (10), followed of Manchester United (7), Real Madrid (7), Juventus (5) and Bayern Munich (4). It fits to remember that the PSG was the last that won to the culés in the liguilla (3-2 in the season 2014-15), although afterwards it finish second of group.