Barcelona has ensured its ticket to the Europa League. but yes, we agree. there is no guarantee, Xavi Hernandez's team can walk smoothly to the final match later. to be sure, there are other formidable teams here that have existed before. I am still optimistic, Arsenal will remain a strong contender in this competition.
Obviously Arsenal will be strong competitors in the Europa League, besides that there are also other teams such as Freiburg, Lazio, PSV and Manchester United who will give fierce resistance in every match which of course for every team in the Europa League this season. Barcelona have to fight a little harder in the Europa League because I see Barcelona's performance at this time starting to decline a bit, while the teams in the Europa League are still in better shape.
this is like last season even last season Barcelona were eliminated from the Europa League with an unexpected team, so this season even this season if you look at the Europa League contestants it is very possible for an increasingly fierce competition.
no one guarantees that Barcelona's journey on the Europa League stage will run smoothly and moreover their current performance is not consistent.
I think this year Barcelona has shown is in much better form than last year,they are doing quite well in La Liga and they only failed in Champions League against Inter and Bayern Munchen which are strong teams,much stronger than the actual ones in the Europa League.
In Europa League I think Barcelona is the strongest contender to the title,they have better harmony during this year and they got Lewandowski,a goal machine which they did not have in the previous season in Europa League,thus Barcelona is so far for me the strongest team in Europa League and I doubt they will be eliminated by a weaker team.