Because Barcelona, Atalanta and other Champions League giants, as well as the Europa League first god team Sevilla, have fallen into the Europa League after the end of the Champions League group stage, making the Europa League championship competition will be extremely fierce, and the game will be more interesting.
In the quarter-finals, the duels such as Porto vs Lyon, Sevilla vs West Ham United, Andanta vs Bayer Leverkusen are no less than the Champions League knockout rounds, at least better than the Champions League quarter-finals Benfica vs Ajax.
So, will Barca vs Turkish Super League team Galatasaray be one-sided in the strong and weak?
This season's Barça has for a long time given people a feeling of being bullied by dogs. La Liga has long been ranked 9th, and the Champions League group is out, both of which are the worst in the past 20 years, which is extremely abnormal.
If a Messi leaves the team, you will not suddenly change from a top team to a super fish belly. Now Messi is not so strong, otherwise Paris would not have been overturned by Real Madrid in the 1/8 final of the Champions League. Saying that the record slipped was because Messi left the team is also disrespectful to Barca's existing players.
The fundamental reason lies in the fainting of the former Barça executives, in the ability of coach Koeman and Barca, in the past two seasons the record continues to be sluggish, Barca squad is old, young and yellow, there are obvious shortcomings in key positions, etc., after Messi left the team, fully erupted.
Koeman left class, Harvey succeeded him, and Barça suddenly gave a new look to Vientiane. La Liga's record is climbing steadily, and the ranking in the standings has gradually stabilized in the top four. In the European arena, after falling from the Champions League to the Europa League, Napoli, which eliminated the Level of The Serie A title competition, advanced to the quarter-finals.
The Turkish Super League, although it has a "super" like the Premier League and the Chinese Super League, its football level is at best only third-rate in Europe. Galatasaray is the first giant of the Turkish Super League, with 22 Turkish Super League champions, 18 Turkish Cup champions, 16 Turkish Super Cup champions all championed in Turkey, and won the Europa League championship and the European Super Cup in 2000. In the 2000 European Super Cup, they beat Real Madrid.
But today's Galatasaray, compared with Barça, the gap is not small, even if Barça is not at its peak.
Galatasaray was runner-up in the Turkish Super League last season and is now only 12th in the Turkish Super League standings.
Barca are unbeaten in their last 10 matches in all competitions with 6 wins and 4 draws, and after a 2-1 2-1 away win over Elche in the 27th round of La Liga, they have accumulated 48 points in 26 games and have risen to third in the La Liga table.
Galatasaray has won 2, drawn 2 and lost 6 of his last 10 matches in all competitions, with a 2-0 away defeat to Konya in the latest round of the Turkish Super League.
The Europa League is the only event where Barca are expected to win the title this season, they no longer need to rely on the Europa League to win the champions league to keep their qualification for next season's Champions League, but they need the championship trophy! In this game, Harvey and his soldiers will not have any reservations, and a big victory can be expected.