Valverde returns, the king of the Leagues and the man of failures in the Champions League

The FC Barcelona will receive this Sunday to the 21.00 hours to the Athletic Bilbao, in a commitment that will bring of turn to Ernesto Valverde for the first time from his dismissal in 2020. The technician lived glorious moments inside the Barcelona institution, although it also left for the memory two of the worst European disasters in the history of the club.

'Txingurri' Landed in the Camp Nou in 2017 for suceder to Luis Enrique with the news that Neymar Júnior left to Paris Saint-Germain in full pre-season, what would leave an important vacancy inside the offensive culé. In spite of this, attained to do with the title suspender belt in his first campaign and also with the Glass of Rey and the Supercopa of Spain, leaving a positive balance in the vitrinas of the club.

However, the 'peros' of his management would appear in Champions, andto that fell deleted in the party of turn in front of the Rome by a marker of (3-0) after the (4-1) achieved in the gone. That was a precedent that did not remain in the forget for the following season in spite of the good feelings that left the team.

Valverde Went back to achieve LaLiga in the 2018/19 and planted in 'semis' of Champions and in the final of the Glass of Rey. The dream of the triplete earned strength, more still after the victory (3-0) in front of the Liverpool in the party of gone. Nevertheless, the history would repeat with a hard disaster by (4-0) in Anfield that left portrayed to the club with that famous corner of Alexander-Arnold. The 'guinda' of the cake was in the final of Glass in front of Valencia, where the 'hangover' European affected to the group and finished losing the title by (2-1) in Benito Villamarín.

Just exit?

The directive of the Barça took the decision to retain him in the bench during the first-half of the season 2019/20, arriving to January like leaders of the domestic tournament. Of equal way, this did not prevent that his exit did imminent after falling with the Athletic of Madrid in the semifinals of the Supercopa of Spain, leaving to the bench in eighth of Champions without trainer. That went the last time that Valverde dressed of blaugrana, a milestone that will break this Sunday when it return to the lawn of the now Spotify Camp Nou.