Leo Messi, struggling by a balloon with Thiago Silva and Rabiot

A VERY GOOD SERIES

The Barça does not lose in the première of Champions from 1997

Published:11/09/2017 - 16:30h

Updated:11/09/2017 - 16:49h

The Barça starts in the Champions this Tuesday against the Juventus in the Camp Nou (20.45h). The Barcelona will look for to inaugurate the course in the maximum European competition with a victory against the runner-up of the last edition

This Tuesday starts the most beautiful competition, the most exciting, the hardest, the most demanding. The best of Europe face to face. The Champions League, the most prestigious title season after season. And the Barça gives the starting signal this Tuesday in the Camp Nou in front of the Juventus -here can buy entrances-, still with the bad memory of that night of chambers in Turín.

All has changed in the Barcelona club -or almost all-. It went Luis Enrique and arrived Valverde, Neymar left and landed Dembélé... But it follows Leo Messi, the soul of a team that wants to recover the prestige and the hegemony to continental level, that that at present belongs him to the Real Madrid.

Looking the historical precedents, to the Barça no gives him at all badly the first day of the phase of groups in the Champions. In fact, from the year 1997 in front of the Newcastle (3-2) does not lose in the première of the competition. If we limit the frame of time, in the last ten years has won in seven occasions and empatado in three.

It remains showed, then , that the Barça accustoms to begin well the Champions. And the big majority of times that has played in the Camp Nou has added the three points. It would be well that tomorrow this tonic kept to continue with the good line that the team has showed in LaLiga.