The precedents relieve to the Barça: it Happened in 12 of 13 occasions

The FC Barcelona has harvested the first defeat of the 2018 in the derbi of Glass of the King against the RCD Espanyol, and inside a week will face a decisive clash in the Camp Nou that will define which is the team classified for semifinals. The traced back is a common message in the Barcelona changing room, and there are a lot of reasons to think that can attain .

The statistics endorse the mission of the valid champion of the tournament, that already has seen in this situation in numerous occasions and has fixed them to him to go out victorious. The precedents indicate that of the 13 times in that the culés faced the turn home with a 1-0 against, in 12 finish volteando the eliminatory. Only in the eighth of the campaign 1981-82 a tie without goals against the Athletic meant a premature end in the competition.

The data are not so halagüeños in what it corresponds to the blanquiazules, that pretend to do cost that that the statistics are to break them. Only in 3 of his 9 opportunities the pericos attained to happen of round keeping the advantage that this Wednesday tieed up in the RCDE Stadium. The conclusion, equally, is clear, will be the Camp Nou the one who decide.

Defeat circunstancial

The analysis of the trip in front of the Espanyol has had a responsible but ambitious tone by part of the players of the Barça, that have explained that the defeat was something that expected that it arrived but that now the aim is to trace back. Footballers like Sergio Busquets and Sergi Roberto have not walked with detours to the hour to value the possibilities of the Barcelona, and have thought in the line of Ernesto Valverde. The Glass offers a second opportunity and are had to take advantage of it, because on the way they are at stake the semifinals.