The best and worst moments of Barça in 2023

The 2023 has left a lot of joys to the FC Barcelona, because it was the year in which -finally- returned the trophies to the vitrinas of the Camp Nou. After remaining in 'white' from 2021, when they won the Glass of the King for the last time, the Barcelona had undertaken a way of reconstruction that has left two titles, of League and Supercopa of Spain, but that still has not finished. The ones of Xavi Hernández still have a lot for learning and improve to give the at the front definite step that so much needs the team.

It has been a year of a lot of growth, but also of altibajos, falls and learning. In total, the Barça contested 45 parties between LaLiga, Champions League, Glass of Rey, Supercopa of Spain and Europe League, with a balance of 37 victories, ten defeats and eight ties. The ones of the trainer egarense have lived a lot of celebrations, but also moments where the 'crisis' has showed , as, precisely, the form in which they finish the year with several 'pricks' in the domestic championship.

The contrast 'total' between January and February

The blaugrana, in any case, began the 2023 with maximum celebration. The Supercopa of Spain, contested in Saudi Arabia, finish with happy final after winning to the Real Madrid (1-3) in one of the best parties of the team since Xavi took the reins of the team. It was a complete exhibition, with overwhelming command, that transformed in a title and the 'takeoff' of the team to launch to by the title of LaLiga.

The joy kept until, in February, went back the European nights, in which -almost- always go out to relucir the ghosts of the team. In the dieciseisavos of final, against the Manchester United, the Catalans could not win. 2-2 home and 2-1 in Old Trafford were the results with which the Barça, very soon, went back to sack of continental competitions, for the second time in the same season. However, the spirits did not wane and kept a firm course in the two domestic championships: League and Glass of Rey.

An end of course moved for the Barça

The 'luck', or no, brought achieve the dispute of three Classical against the Real Madrid in less than a month: One by LaLiga and two by the semifinals of the tournament of the 'KO'. Here it was when the history was agridulce for the blaugrana. They began the firm batch with a victory by 0-1 in Santiago Bernanéu, thanks to a goal of Éder Militao that it approached them to a new final, and attained to impose in the Camp Nou by the party of League thanks to a goal 'in extremis' of Franck Kessié, for the 2-1.

The panorama seemed ideal so that, shortly after, the ones of Xavi imposed in the last Classical of the course and achieved the pass to the final of Glass of Rey, but lived a new dump. In the feudo barcelonista and with a 0-1 against, the White House threw of epic for 'punish' to the Barça in his house. Karim Benzema commissioned to mark a 'hat-trick' and, with another goal of Vini Jr, the group culé lived one of his worst moments of the year. Fortunately, it did not affect in League: in May topped champions, with a very good difference on the Real Madrid and Athletic of Madrid, in an ideal stage.

They visited to the RCD Espanyol in Cornellà and imposed , with goleada, to celebrate the title (2-4). In a derbi, 'hot' by the invasion of the fans in the field after the pitazo final, the barcelonistas celebrated his second title of the year and put end to the drought in League, that did not win it from 2019. It was the first post-Messi and the end to a season of a lot of sacrifices, but that finished with joys.

The lights and shadows in the season 2023/2024

Already it has finished the first stretch of the season 2023/2024 and are varied the important points that has had a Barça that has not finished of 'explode', in spite of the reinforcements that arrived. They have not found the regularity and, in a lot of occasions, have credited to the suffering, as in the parties in front of Villarreal and Real Celtic Club, that finish with traced back. The most positive has been the classification to the eighth of final of the Champions League, as first of group, by in front of Port wine and Shakhtar.

The Barça goes back to a phase 'KO' after two consecutive seasons falling in phase of group and is the big 'highlight' of what goes of course, as well as the two 'manitas' consecutive in front of Real Betis and Royal Amberes that, definitely, have been the highest point of the blaugrana. They have not had so much luck in the Classical, that finish with traced back thanks to a doublet of Jude Bellingham, or in the most recent parties: 1-1 against the Ray, 1-0 to impose in front of the Athletic, 2-4 home in front of the Girona, 1-1 in front of Valencia, the defeat in front of the Royal Amberes (3-2) and the triumph suffered in the visit of the Almería (3-2).