The FC Barcelona will play against the Athletic in 1/4 of Champions

The Athletic of Madrid will be the team that will try to stop the feet to the FC Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2015-16. The culés, that split like big favourites to do with the for the second time consecutive title and by sixth time along his history, will do all the possible for trying resolve the eliminatory in the party of gone, assuming of this way the party of turn with a greater tranquility. The party of gone will play in the Camp Nou, whereas the one of turn will be in Vicente Calderón.

It fits to remember that, it does two seasons, the Athletic of Madrid went precisely the uncomfortable rival that achieved to take down to the FC Barcelona of the quarter-finals of the European competition. It was the season in which the Barça, trained by Gerardo Martino, did not achieve to surpass to the Athletic in any of the six parties that contested against the rojiblancos along the course 2013-14, losing precisely the "final of the League" in the Camp Nou in front of the group colchonero. The times have changed, however, and now the culés are much more powerful that before.

The Barça of Luis Enrique seems not having tope, and follows accumulating records and parties imbatido in the most important moment of the season. The blaugranas finish with the few illusions of the pupilos of Arsène Wenger the past Wednesday in the Camp Nou when defeating them 3-1. With the triumph, the FC Barcelona carries already more than a natural year without losing any party in his field in all the competitions, a new milestone that add to the legend that are building the men of Luis Enrique during the last year and half.

The victory in front of the British, besides, arrived with another prize. The FC Barcelona already has surpassed the historical record of consecutive victories that had home in the maximum continental competition. To date, the Catalans had harvested a total of nine parties won in the Camp Nou from the past 2014-2015. A series that shows the power that have the blaugranas in his own feudo, and that will wish to follow prolonging against the Athletic of Madrid in the eliminatory of quarter-finals of the tournament, to which arrive with the morals by the clouds.

The importance of the Camp Nou

The Camp Nou that has turned into an authentic hell for his rivals. In the Champions League, The Barça began this exceptional series the past season winning to the APOEL Nikosea 1-0. After this meeting, Ajax (3-1), PSG (3-1), Manchester City (1-0), again PSG (2-0) and Bayern Munich (3-0) went out escaldado of the Estadi the past campaign. The meetings of this season in front of Bayer Leverkusen (2-1), BEATS Borisov (3-0), Rome (6-1) and this last 3-1 harvested in front of the Arsenal already do that the culés have added a total of ten victories followed.

Since the ones of the City Condal lost in front of the Bayern of Munich on 1 April 2013, have won fourteen parties and only have empatado another, the one who confronted them to the Athletic of Madrid in the quarter-finals of the season 2013-2014. Like this then , after going back to win have surpassed the nine consecutive triumphs reached in the extinct Glass of Europe between 1986 and 1992.

To four parties of Milan

The FC Barcelona already adds nine uninterruptible editions in which it has classified for quarter-finals of Champions. The Catalan group shows with this be already all a classical in the final rounds of the maximum continental competition, doing it, besides, with clarity. And it is that the supremacy of the Catalan team in this 21st century in the European football is more than checked. The Barcelona carry already nine editions followed of the League of Champions being, at least, in the quarter-finals. All from the 2007-2008, and of these, in three finish achieving the title. We expect that it was this the fourth occasion in which they finish carrying the "fat "" to go on doing history.

Now the culés remain to four parties of the final of Milan. Two eliminatory against the best teams of the continent that present thrilling, but that the ones of "Struggle" see with optimism and win. And it is that anybody has achieved to heave twice consecutive the "orejona". That will be the main challenge of the Barça in this last stretch of the season 2015-16.

The fans of the Barça wanted to to the Real Madrid

In the first survey carried out by "FCBN" on the rival culé in the eliminatory of quarter-finals of Champions, from among the 545 users that voted a total of 359 (65,9%) chose to the Real Madrid like opponent for the quarter-finals of the League of Champions. In spite of that teams like Benfica and Wolfsburgo were without place to doubts the true "cenicientas" of the next eliminatory, and possibly the teams to those who wished to confront the majority of big clubs of Europe, to the fans of the Barça like him the strong dishes. And this confirmed with the new survey launched during the last hours, in which 70,1% of the voters (429) chose again to the Real Madrid like opponent.

Calendar and results of the UEFA Champions League 2015-2016