Last summer, Messi did not renew his contract with Barca, choosing to join the European tycoon Paris Saint-Germain, Barca did initially become a second- and third-rate level, the Champions League fiasco Bayern and because of Benfica's pressure to qualify, as well as La Liga and the Western Super League successive losses to Real Madrid, suffered a five-game national derby defeat. Now under the coaching of Xavi, Barca have gradually returned to their former strong team style.
Barca's most recent round at home against second-placed Sevilla is a crucial battle for the second, with Barca winning alone to achieve a comeback or help Real Madrid fight for the title.
According to German transfer information, Barça's entire team is worth 679 million euros, ranking second in La Liga, and Sevilla is worth 412 million euros, ranking fourth in La Liga, and the gap between the strength of the two teams is very small. In their first meeting of the season, Barca drew 1-1 away to Sevilla.
Back at camp Nou, 76,112 fans watched live and looked forward to Barca continuing their recent winning streak. In the first half, neither team scored, and in the 72nd minute of the second half, Dembele took the ball and split into the middle, Pedri faced the forced continuous shaking after a world wave to break the goal, helping Barca to take the next city 1-0, the whole team celebrated wildly, and coach Xavi directly jumped up and roared in celebration.
With Pedri's world-wave win, Barca won 1-0 at home and did not lose to Sevilla at home in La Liga for 19 consecutive years. In this victory, Barca won six consecutive La Liga games and remained unbeaten in 13 consecutive matches in all competitions, with 10 wins and 3 draws, which is the team's longest unbeaten record in the past three years.
According to statistics, Barca have won the last two months of Real Madrid (4-0), Sevilla (1-0), Atletico Madrid (4-2) in the top three, a change from Koeman's coaching period when he could not face strong teams most of the time to win.
This is what Barca can do without Messi, of course, without the tuning of manager Xavi. Since the 14th round of la Liga derby to play the debut of Coach barca, Xavi led the team to participate in 17 La Liga matches, achieved 12 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss to get 40 points, only 2 points less than Real Madrid in the same period, Xavi has turned Barca into the strength of the giants of the past in less than a season, you can completely forget the existence of Messi.
At present, Barca are too many points behind Real Madrid in La Liga, and there is little hope of winning the title, and Xavi's more realistic goal is to impact the Europa League title.