Barcelona's 100% start to the season brought to a disappointing end last midweek after they traveled France to play against Monaco in their first UEFA Champions League game of the season and that brought many criticisms to the team. Some persons were of the opinion that despite Barcelona's previous results before the game, they do not have all it takes to win in big matches. In their response to the critics today, the Spanish La Liga league leaders delivered another scintillating performance against Villarreal to continue to their impressive performance in the league. My question now is should we consider Barcelona as a club that can only do well in the league and get beaten in European competitions?
Barcelona currently are in a form which they have never been before for like over 5 seasons and this is all thanks to the good management by Hansi Flick. Many supporters actually doubted his ability to get the team back to where they belong or where they are now and he is currently proving them wrong and also teaching people that experience in terms of management can be a huge difference. Six wins in six games today had Barcelona on the verge of thinking they can win everything.
Although the team has been formidable in the league which i think if they don’t win they will provide better competition than they actually did last season. In the league they only have just Madrid to do battle with for the league and they don’t seems to be perfect just yet but you don’t rule out Madrid out in any competition till it ends or they get knocked out. So i personally believe that Barcelona will go all the way in the legaue but the champions league will be a little bit different because of the stiff competition there and the youthful players in this Barcelona team haven’t played or gotten the league heat first, so will personally reserve my predictions about them till the knockout stages and see how they perform in this group games first