THE CULÉS SEEK THE FEAT IN ENGLAND
The precedent that invites Barça to dream on their visit to Old Trafford
Barça will have a very tough Europa League match against Manchester United in which the historical numbers do not favor them. However, there is an incentive that gives hope to the Barcelona classification
The FC Barcelona will visit this Thursday to the 21.00 hours to the Manchester United in the party of turn of the dieciseisavos of final of Europe League. Xavi Hernández will land with the aim to achieve the triumph that classify them to the following round, taking into account that it will not have several important players and that Old Trafford is a stage that historically has been complicated for the culés.
The Catalans have visited the enclosure 'network devil' in five opportunities by European competitions, leaving a register of a victory, two ties and two defeats. The first time that saw the faces was in the quarter-finals of the Recopa 1983/84, where the Barcelona landed with a 2-0 to his favour achieved in the Camp Nou. However, only 53' minutes sufficed so that the English gave him gone back to the global marker and classified with a 3-0 home.
In the phase of groups of the League of Champions also have seen the faces during the editions of 1994/95 and 1998/99. Both visits to British floor finished in equalities by 3-3 and 2-2 respectively, although all would change a decade later in the 2007/08. The United, comandado by Cristiano Ronaldo, did with the party of turn of the 'semis' of Champions (1-0) after the 0-0 in the gone to open walk course to a new European final that finished winning.
Inducement in the air
Finally, the most recent precedent occurred in the 2018/19 and invites to the optimism. In this opportunity the Barça visited Old Trafford in the meeting of gone of the quarter-finals of Glass of Europe and concretised his first triumph to domicile (0-1) thanks to a goal in own door of Luke Shaw. Later, Leo Messi and company would sentence the eliminatory home with a 3-0 rotundo that opened them the doors of some new semifinals to continental level.
Now, the Barcelona will have a new opportunity to make history in the United Kingdom in front of one of the best United of the last times. The eliminatory continues opened (2-2) and will be a proof more than the team will have to face if it wants to return to the elite like a winning group, more still after a long series of drought of international titles.
