In the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, Barca, who played at home, failed to win and exchanged blanks with Galatasaray, while Xavi set an embarrassing record, becoming the second Barca manager in history to fail to win the first two European home games.
Galatasaray is a traditional giant, but has been in extremely poor form recently, with just 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats in his previous 10 games against Barca, and the organization conceded 18 goals, averaging 1.8 goals per game.
However, in the face of such a defensively breathable team, Depay, Torres, Traore, Dembele, Aubameyang and Luc De Jong took turns to play, but Barca failed to break the goal, which was the first time that Barca failed to score in 2022, and the previous four-game winning streak was also ended.
Star Suarez criticized Barca's performance, "Even against a less strong team, you should play with the idea of trying to win. Barca played too softly and it was hard to win. ”
Exchanging white papers with opponents allowed Harvey to set an embarrassing record. After Xavi took charge, Barca failed to win or score in both European matches at home, exchanging blanks with Benfica and Galatasaray respectively. In Barca's history, the only manager who has not been able to win in the first two European home games is Louis van Gaal.
In fact, in the first three European home games after Xavi took charge, Barca failed to win. In the Europa League knockout play-offs, Barca drew 1-1 at home to Napoli. In three European home games, Xavi's Barcelona have scored just one goal.
Barca's European spell at Camp Nou has been going on for a long time, with 11 of the nearly 14 European goals scored by Camp Nou away, while Barca have scored just three. It is worth emphasizing that this is the first time that Galatasaray has retreated completely at Camp Nou. In the previous seven away games against Barca, Galatasaray has conceded 23 goals.
It was also the third time in Barca's European history that they had exchanged white rolls at home at home, the first time in the 2007–08 Champions League semi-finals, when they exchanged blank rolls with Manchester United. A year later, Barca exchanged blanks with Chelsea, relying on Iniesta's goal in the second leg to advance to the final.