The bloodletting out of house, a problem corrected half

If the tie of the FC Barcelona in Stamford Bridge is sufficient will judge it the party of turn in the Camp Nou, but for the moment what is clear is that the Catalans follow without losing in the Champions. It will be by quality, luck or insistence, but Ernesto Valverde has attained voltear a dynamics that has cost him titles to the culés. This yes, still remains a lot of work for doing.

Among others reasons, if there are not more international trophies in the vitrinas Barcelona is because it has not given the size in the meetings out of house, a bad that has affected to equal parts so much in phases of groups as in eliminatory. In the last times explain victories in front of opponents like Arsenal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Celtic or Sporting of Portugal, but to the hour of the truth, the legs have failed.

The triumph of the Athletic in Vicente Calderón in the course 2015-16 (2-0) began a dangerous series that the Barça had not attained to close, and to which in this campaign at least has put brake. The Manchester City (3-1), the PSG (4-0) or the Juventus (3-0) were very hard hits to domicile, something of what the Txingurri has taken good note.

Although it has not attained still shine far of his own fans, the Catalan group has resolved the bloodletting, jointing lines, with a solider proposal and a capacity of fight that is differential in tournaments of the KO. It cost him by little in José Alvalade (0-1) and empató without goals against Olympiacos and Juventus, something that has served him also in the recent visit to England.

Another step forward

It does not be necessary to forget that the Barça of Valverde still is a team under construction, that has improved a lot from the summer but that it has to work a lot of appearances in which it still has margin of improvement. Like this, translate his command in goals and begin to explain by victories his clashes against the best of the world has to be a pending subject, the following step in his evolution.

To do an idea of the historical difficulty that supposes to impose far of the Camp Nou in Europe only does lacking to throw a glimpse to the numbers, since the culés have harvested 60 victories, 44 ties and 43 defeats in far earths and 113 triumphs, 23 equalised and 12 defeats when they have played in own field. For the moment already it has gone up a stair, now remains to follow advancing. The titles are at stake.