In spite of having begun the Champions League 2017-18 with good foot, the FC Barcelona faces his second European party with several pending accounts. A victory in his second party allanaría a lot the way to the eliminatory phase, and besides would serve to break with a statistics that has lastrado to the Barcelona in his last attempts to raise the 'orejona'.
After some years in which the Catalan group was one of the most feared of the continent, his path in the tournament has seen affected by a remarkable bajón of performance in the clashes out of house, prejudicing his interests especially in the decisive crossings.
In the phase of groups still there is time to react after a trip, but in the eliminatory these pay . Although the Barça has very recent the goleadas in the Park of the Princes and the Juventus Stadium, east is a bad that comes of far. Of his last six parties to domicile in Champions, the Barcelona only have won two, accumulating a disastrous balance regarding marked goals and fit.
Five so many in favour and thirteen against have been a losa very difficult to surpass, with the two recent defeats against Juventus (3-0) and PSG (4-0), an adjusted phase of groups against Celtic (0-2), Manchester City (3-1) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (1-2) and another stumble in the elimination against the Athletic in the campaign 2015-16 (2-0).
Valverde, slope
If in LaLiga already has done special upsetting in recovering the solidity out of house, Ernesto Valverde does not want any distraction in the parties to domicile in Champions. The technician wants to recover the best version of the Barça in Europe, and therefore it has programmed some of his rotations with seen to the first visit of the current course, that will be to a stadium José Alvalade where already expects the Sporting of Portugal.