The crowd believes in Barcelona, the bookmakers are forced to adapt to this opinion, because if they give honest quotes for the game, and because of the dispersion of the results, the crowd is right, then the bookmakers will be at a loss. In general, I was once again convinced that Barcelona is very much overestimated (only one point was scored out of three serious games) and I look forward to Clasico with pleasure.
Agreed, i don't know why those are still underestimating real madrid. We can see what's gonna be the result from classico. Real madrid has been locking a spot to the last 16 while barcelone will still face dead or alive matches against plzen and bayern. Barcelona may lose against bayern and win against plzen. There's no reason for me to think barcelona is better than real caused by it has so many pressures now.
By the way, it seems that last week the Barcelona manager presented the team's budget and it was taken into account that Barcelona would reach at least the quarter-finals of the Champions League
At the same time, the budget was still in deficit even if Barcelona won both the Champions League and La Liga. Now Barcelona is in an even more difficult situation and I don't know what leverage Laporta has yet to use.