Madrid is a Champions League winner. It’s an evidence. Compete like no one else in this tournament and know how to overcome and survive in the face of adversity. It seems to have a special idyll and something that the rest of the teams have not been able to find. This is the only way to explain the latest successes in Europe and especially the miracle of this season where, not being superior or better than PSGto the Chelseato the Manchester City and to Liverpool he managed, one after another, to leave all his opponents on the canvas until champion in Paris. It is not taking merit away from the white team, quite the contrary, it is highlighting that it does not take much or as much as other clubs to win the difficult European Cup.
This unshakeable faith they have and that almost sickly obsession to add one after another all the titles that he already has and that make him double his closest pursuer.
We have seen editions in which the Barcelona It had the best squad, the best cast of soccer players, and for one reason or another, it left behind titles that were taken for granted. Messi’s golden age at Barcelona should have had at least three more Champions but they didn’t finish showing their superiority. The 2010 Champions was one of them. The one who won the Inter de Milan at the Bernabeu. The disastrous arbitration in Milan prevented Guardiola’s men from reaching the very final in Madrid.
the of the 2011/2012 with elimination in the semifinals at the hands of Chelsea, who would eventually be proclaimed champion was another title within reach of the azulgranas. Another historic failure.
The season 2015/2016 with elimination in the quarterfinals at the hands of Atletico Madrid It also gave the feeling that it was a tournament within reach of the culers.
And the last ones, the 2017/2018 before the Rome where the European decline of Barcelona’s champion generation begins by inconceivably losing an income of three goals or the 2018/2019 with the affront to him Liverpool allowing himself to be beaten in Anfiled when his rival, Tottenham, with everything in their favor in the Metropolitan final, was almost waiting for him.
are some examples of how the best Barcelona in history could have left the club’s record in Europe and in Messi’s era close to 8-9 titles as soon as it had met expectations. In many cases they were the best but they did not capture it.
That is one of the most important differences in the history of modern European competition between the Whites and the Blaugrana. Barcelona also needs to play well, to be far superior to their rival. Madrid is worth little.
It is a problem of mentality and competitiveness. Of desire. of faith And that is also football. That is one of the aspects that Barcelona must improve in the future, as the Spanish team did with Luis Aragonés, or Barcelona with Johan Cruyff. Compete better. That’s also football and maybe we wouldn’t be lamenting the lost Champions League.