THE DATA: If it marks Leo Messi, the Barça wins the eliminatory

Leo Messi broke this Tuesday a curse that lasted a lot of years and that had him without marking in front of Chelsea, allanando a lot the way of the FC Barcelona to the quarter-finals of the Champions. In addition to that many have described to the Catalans like favourites by his simple presence in the team, there is a statistics that like this shows it.

As it affirms the sportive analyst Pedro Martín through his account of Twitter, the Barcelona never have lost an eliminatory European in which the Argentinian have found the networks. It will be another complicadísimo clash in the Camp Nou the one who finish sealing the verdict to a crossing of high voltage, but for the moment the support of the numbers never is despicable.

Between the last duels lost by the culés in the maximum international competition also are the 'blues', in addition to the Liverpool, the Manchester United, the Inter of Milan, the Bayern of Munich, the Juventus and the Athletic of Madrid, that attained to take down them in two occasions. The first that did well to impose was, curiously, cancel the influence of Messi.

Pending work

If there is something that have remained clear in the changing room of the Barça is that still there is not at all resolved in spite of the minimum advantage with which landed in the City Condal. In his statements post split there was not ningun member of the staff that was not conclusive in this regard, and Ernesto Valverde launched also a warning: "it Is important to go by in front, but is not definite".

Shelving that Chelsea attained to happen in three of the four eliminatory in which it left to extraneous field to contest the turn, fits to remember that until the worst statistical are to break , as the one who 'popped' Messi in Stamford Bridge or the own Barça in the Camp Nou, in a magic night in front of Paris Saint-Germain. They are warned.