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?
On the records, Barcelona have scored 22 goals this season, having 16 goals coming from their three previous league games, Hansi Flick is doing a great job in Camp Nou this season. In his first season, he's unbeaten 6th game in La Liga fixtures and he's not holding back, ambitious about the bright future that lies ahead and accomplishing this dream, there ought to be extreme presence of hardwork, consistency when it comes to performance from the players, back to back. We're acquainted with the performance of Barcelona this season, they've been nothing but a formidable elite club in La Liga.Barcelona comes to the UEFA Champions League, they suddenly turned ghost elite club. Unable to deliver their very best and this is not the first or second time, it's been like that under different managers. The big curious questions comes up, can Hansi Flick turn the hand of clock and start getting brilliant game outcomes in elite leagues and not just the domestic league. Barcelona will have to do more outside La Liga because everyone thinks they're incompetent to handle elite oppositions, taking someone on your own size is the main deal for elite competition.