In this round of europa League quarter-finals, Barca were eliminated by Eintracht Frankfurt at their home stadium, which was a very surprising result. What is even more surprising is that after the game, Barca from the players to the coach to the top management, this time to find out the reason for the loss is very unified, but also shocking, that is, they complained that there are too many away fans at the Camp Nou stadium, and such behavior should not have appeared.
According to statistics, the Camp Nou stadium has a total of 79,000 fans, but Frankfurt's fans reached 35,000, and indeed from the perspective of the number of away fans, the number of fans in Frankfurt this time is really a bit large, but Barca's reason for losing is somewhat embarrassing.
The first is Xavi, as the manager of Barca, he is not satisfied with the performance of the team, and he also believes that the team's home atmosphere is not ideal, which makes the team not enjoy the so-called home feeling. The same is true of Barca player Araujo, who said that the team's home game, but there are a large number of away fans, such a situation is incredible, the defender also said that in response to such a situation, the club should take a thorough look. What is even more shocking is that Barca's president, Laporta, has also held such a view, angrily accusing some members of the team of selling tickets to away fans, and saying that such a thing is a shame.
I have to say that the excuse for Barca up and down this time makes people feel very speechless, after Barca lost and was eliminated, from the coach to the players and the top management, what they think about is not to analyze the reasons and reflect on themselves from the perspective of football, but to throw the responsibility to these strange factors. In fact, Barca's defeat, strictly speaking, is the strength of the team, this team has not been successful in rebuilding, but the good record of the previous period gave Xavi and the club some wrong feelings, thinking that the team has recovered.
Before the defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt, Barca were unbeaten in 15 games, including a 4-0 away win over Real Madrid, which may have made Xavi and the whole team fully aware of the team's problems, and when it came to the serious key game scene, Barca exposed its problems. First of all, the team's defensive line is still very problematic, and the team's Mingha and Garcia have played abnormally in this game, but in fact, Barca's current defensive line has no one other than Araujo.
Secondly, the team's forward line still lacks real big names, after a good performance some time ago, Aubameyang is now gradually beginning to mute, and players such as Traore and Ferrantore are doomed to be useless. It's just that these players scored a few more goals when the other side was not yet familiar, so that the team mistakenly believed that the team did not need to buy real big names, which is obviously extremely wrong.
From the current situation, Barca still need to really spend money if they want to really complete the reconstruction, rather than taking some opportunistic ways to buy some players who do not need to pay fees, which seems to be spending small money to do big things, but in fact, it is completely deceiving themselves. Unfortunately, they don't have a budget, and no one knows exactly how to build the team.