When Ernesto Valverde arrived to the Barça, warned that one of his intentions was to recover the intensity that the Catalans had gone losing with the years. Although the starts were promising, the Real Madrid gave back to the culés to the earth in the Supercopa, but the feelings seem to have improved with the turn to LaLiga.
It is true that for the moment only has crossed with Real Betis and Sportive Alavés, two a priori lower rivals, but for the moment already accumulates better balance that in a past season in which it carried three goals of the sevillanos -in two parties- and two of the vitorianos, those that meant a premature and difficult to digest defeat in the Camp Nou.
Without going more far, in the global of LaLiga previous, the Barça sealed an average of almost a so much fit by party (0,97), putting of self-evident that the things backwards did not work as they would have to. Distractions, errors and tarpaulins of the contrary mixed , subtracting to the Catalan possibilities of victory and meaning at the end that the title remained by the way.
This year, however, the Barcelona have begun with better foot: Two parties and two goals to zero. Still it is not a significant fact, and more having some unfit that they saw in Mendizorroza, but already is a good symptom of face to clashes more demanding, like the first crossing against the Athletic or the European première in front of the Juventus.
The Champions, proof
Precisely, after a season something toneless and a summer more than complicated, the Barça goes back to the Champions with the aim to do a good paper, but a go through behind other more consolidated teams, like the same Juventus or the Real Madrid, the last finalists, and in the case of the Italians, hangmen of the Catalans.
It is in this case when the defence can result differential, and is that in a group with so much offensive potential like the Barcelona the goals finish arriving, but not fitting turns into compulsory. With the disasters in the Park of the Princes and the Juventus Stadium still very recent, the work in the retaguardia has to give his fruits, and for the moment, the Barça already has given a first step.