It is not a secret that the FC Barcelona is living one of his worst seasons in the last years. In spite of some improvements in punctual parties, the irregularity keeps and the adverse results finish repeating with some frequency. Moved away of the fight by the title of LaLiga, out of the Glass of Rey and the Supercopa of Spain and thrown of the Champions in the phase of groups.
Of all the evils, perhaps the fact to contest the Europe League was the worst of all. In fact, the club had presupuestado reach the quarter-finals, having the economic profits to be in the tournament of elite. However, a series of bad results finished leaving to the Barça in a tournament of second order. Everything like consequence of the tropiezos in vital parties for the Barcelona team.
The tropiezos of the Barça in vital parties
The first crash in front of the Bayern in the Camp Nou finished in a goleada favourable to the visitors (0-3). The opportunity to trace back would arrive in front of the Benfica, but again would fall. This time in Lisbon by 3-0. The two victories in front of the Dynamo of Kiev (one with Koeman and another with Sergi Barjuan), both by the minimum, seemed to do renacer the hope to the culés.
Already with Xavi to the control, the Barcelona needed to win to the Benfica not to arrive to the last date depending on other results. But the commitment finish with a tie to zero and had to play everything in the Allianz in front of the Bavarians. Although the egarense entered some modifications in the game, evident in the first parties, the result in Germany was a 3-0 that sent to the culés to the Europe League.
In LaLiga, a tournament that the Barça dominated comfortably during the past decade, the seguidilla of slips in transcendental meetings, like the visit to the Athletic (2-0), the Classical home (1-2), the tie in front of the Seville in the Sánzhez Pizjuán (1-1) and a defeat more in front of a direct rival like the Betis (0-1) have extended the brecha between the teams that today find litigating the squares to the Champions, whereas the team of Xavi only can limit to expect a trip of his rivals to try trace back positions.
The Supercopa of Spain lucía like a possibility so that the Barcelona could claim in front of the Real Madrid. In spite of presenting a hard battle arrive until the extention, the merengues finished imposing and leaving without chances to the Barça. The panorama repeated in front of the Athletic of Bilbao by the eighth of the Glass of the King in Saint Mamés: a new defeat in a tournament of direct elimination and home.