The phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League began of the best way for the FC Barcelona. The goleada home in front of the Royal Amberes (5-0) allows to the ones of Xavi Hernández give the first step to the eighth of final with a wide result that puts them leaders of the Group H above a Port wine that also debuted with victory in front of the Shakhtar (1-3).
Curiously, the 'manita' to the Belgian champion brings good memories to the Barça thinking in his way to a new final of Champions, something that does not achieve from 2015. In the 2010/11, the culés also premièred with a goleada home (5-1 in front of the Panathinaikos), a season that finish with doublet (League and Champions) after the exhibition of the ones of Pep Guardiola in Wembley in front of the Manchester United (3-1).
Xavi called to the calm after the goleada in front of the Amberes
Although the result in front of the Amberes emulates the done in the 2010/11, also follows suit with the achieved in the first day of the past edition. The culés debuted goleando to Viktoria Plzen in Camp Nou (5-1), but did not attain to surpass the phase of groups after falling in the hand manually against Bayern Munich and Inter of Milan. After two early eliminations consecutive, Xavi Hernández knows how handle the initial euphoria.
"The past year were in the same situation after the first party and afterwards happened what happened. Now we have the most complicated exit in Port wine, want to happen to eighth and if it is like first of groups, much better. It will be the most difficult party", explained the egarense. The Barça will visit to the 'dragons' in the next day looking for a triumph that direct a classification that, in principle, luce much simpler that the previous season.
In the 2010/11 also had surpassed an accessible group
Going back to the similarity with the 2010/11, where the ones of Pep Guardiola won the second 'orejona' in three years, the group that surpassed that Barça also was quite accessible, to the equal that the one of the present edition. In addition to the Panathinaikos, the culés surpassed to the Copenhagen and to the Rubin Kazán with a total of 14 points after yielding a pair of equalities in front of Danish and Russians. In Camp Nou, the group blaugrana added plenary of victories (9 goals in favour and only 1 against), in addition to another goleada in Greece (0-3).