The FC Barcelona, heating before a match this season 2020-21

THE HISTORY REPEATS

The Barça accumulates his worst register since principles of the 21st century

Published:21/12/2020 - 23:22h

Updated:22/12/2020 - 01:56h

After the tie against the Valencia, the FC Barcelona consolidated his third worse register, to these heights of championship, since principles of the 21st century

It does not seem to have light at the end of the tunnel for this FC Barcelona, that no for to give tumbos from the start of this season 2020-21. His shrinking has gone it carrying until the darkest periods where the team also presented poor registers. It fits to highlight that, in the 21st century, only there are three seasons that added a lower punctuation that the one who presents today the Boat of Ronald Koeman after contesting 13 parties.

This Saturday the Barcelona measured in front of the Valency in the Camp Nou, finalised with tie (2-2) repeating the drama: it Started underneath in the marker, but could not consolidate the traced back. Afterwards of 13 days (one less than the average), sum 21 points and occupies the fifth place in the table of classification of LaLiga, four units of distance of the chamber, Villarreal.

Until the moment, Lionel Messi and company have not remained so backwards as in the campaign 2002-03. Joan Gaspart was to the control of the Barcelona bench during the fateful travesía desértica that suffered the team, that added 16 points and was tenth in the table to 13 of the leader, Real Sociedad.

However, yes they are near of the 20 units of the campaign 2000-01 and of the 2003-04. In this last, Frank Rijkaard lidió with a complicated and deep renewal of staff, such as now it assumes Ronald Koeman.

The history repeats in the Barcelona

The Boat added four seasons without successes (2000-04). In that then suffered by the prolongation of the institutional unsteadiness that finalised with the resignation of Gaspart and the announcement of elections; such as sucede at present with the resignation of Josep Bartomeu and the elections that will be celebrated the next 24 January. The institutional crisis saw reflected in the field with the loss of competitiveness, so much in Europe as in LaLiga.

Rijkaard Achieved mesh the pieces in the second stretch of the season 2003/04, and in the following campaign 2004/05 initiated a golden age in the history of the club, interrupted only in the 2007/2008, and that prolonged until the past season 2019-20, the first in which the Barcelona club remained without titles after eleven exultant years.

Almost to half of the record

During these eleven years of glory of the Barcelona, lived the campaigns ligueras more iconic in the history of the club. The difference regarding points, comparing these versions with the current, can be abysmal. The extreme cases are: 2012/13 of Tito Vilanova and the 2013/14 of the Tata Martino, with 37 points: