Barca, which has been in the Champions League for a long time more than a decade ago, is now being bullied in the Europa League, such a gap is lamentable, and their key battle data in the European arena in the past 6 years is even more incompatible with the status of top giants. In the 16-17 Champions League quarter-final knockout round, although Barca did not stage a reversal tragedy, but the first leg has been defeated by Juve 0-3, and finally 0-3 overall scored out. In the 17-18 season that followed, Barca began to enter a reversal mode, also in the Champions League quarter-final knockout round, they won 4-1 in the first leg, and suffered a 0-3 score in the second leg, due to the away goal disadvantage was a terrible reversal. Then in the 18-19 Champions League semi-finals, Barca were defeated by Liverpool 0-4 in the second leg with a huge advantage of 3-0 in the first leg, once again becoming the background board for the earth-shattering reversal.
Entering the 19-20 season, after temporarily changing to a single-legged knockout system due to special circumstances, Barca suffered a 2-8 tragedy sent by Bayern in the round of 8 knockouts. Then last season's round of 16 knockout round, Barca was beaten 1-4 in the first leg against Paris, and finally eliminated by a total score of 2-5. This season, they were first beaten 3-0 by Bayern in the crucial battle of the Champions League group promotion, and then in the second leg of the Europa League, they were beaten 3-2 by Eintracht Frankfurt. From these score data, it can be seen that Barca have been eliminated by their opponents for 6 consecutive years in the key battles of European competition, in the humiliating way of conceding at least 3 goals in a single game, which is obviously completely inconsistent with the status of the top giants.
And the bane of this situation, in fact, as early as 8 years ago has been planted, in the summer of 2014 the legendary center-back Puyol officially retired, his departure not only made the Barca defense less of a fierce player, but also let the entire defense line have less of a domineering, a strong spiritual force, after Puyol left Camp Nou, Barca's defense line is even the entire team, the biggest sense to the fans is the style of the ball is gorgeous but quite weak, as long as they encounter a team that is broken, they will most likely be pinched in place and crushed in one fell swoop. In fact, after Puyol, the Barça defense line once appeared to be a light, but that light has long been reduced to a laughing stock, he is Umtiti. After joining Barca in the summer of 2016, Umtiti used more than a year of highlight performances to make many fans respect him as the new Puyol, which was once worth 70 million euros in Germany, and the performance of France as the main central defender to win the World Cup are also the best evidence.
However, due to factors such as injuries and personal attitudes, after only 4 years, Umtiti has become a huge burden, and the valuation of his body has plummeted to 2 million euros. However, this season's Barça defense, in fact, there is another dawn, he is Araujo, the 23-year-old Uruguayan center-back, whether it is growth potential, existing strength or on-field mental strength, are very worthy of sa fans' expectations. And we are also very much looking forward to Barca, under the leadership of Harvey, to be able to turn over this very disgraceful page as soon as possible, and now it seems that the time should not be too long.