And the collapse in Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, Hansi Felk has Barcelona on the right track in the semi -finals of the Champions League and return to the European elite after a rocky decade in Catalonia. The semi -final placing, as Barcelona is likely to be the favorite candidate to make the final, represents the high water mark so far for the Catalan giants in the post -Lionel Messenger. Four points from Real Madrid in the league with seven games remaining, and Los Blancos also faces in the Copa del Ray final, Barcelona has its best season since Messi’s departure.
Since winning it in Berlin in 2015, Barcelona has not returned to the Champions League semi -finals. This came in 2018-19, although the match is one of the Catalan who prefer to forget it.
In that tie, Barcelona became a footnote in an incredible return story from Liverpool, which was restricted, as it allowed his first victory 3-0 in a 4-0 defeat in Anfield.
The following season, Barcelona was neglected 8-2 by Bayern Munich, a coach in the quarter-finals.
Barcelona did not return to the quarter-finals until 2023-24, when its first 3-2 victory over Paris Saint-Germain’s progress in horror 4-1 at home.
Outside the stadium, Barcelona apparently holds an endless group of financial scandals, as well as Messi’s loss, the best player ever, in a free transfer in 2021.
“We want to continue”
However, this season, with Messi’s heir to launch, launches Yamal, along with Ravenna and veteran Robert Lewandowski, Barcelona, looks at their best, especially against the supreme opposition.
In addition to his 4-0 victory on Wednesday over Dortmund, in the Champions League finals last season, Barcelona’s 4-1 victory over Bayern in the group stages how it could be the harsh Flick team.
In two clashes with the real this season, Barcelona won 4-0 and 5-2.
Along with showing that there is a life after Messi in Barcelona, this season was one of the justification for the shake.
Although Bayern experimenting in the six-fruit season, including the Champions League in the period 2019-20, Felk was poor as Germany’s president raised his doubts about his ability.
The victory in the Champions League final this season, at Allianz Arena in Munich, will appear that the 60 -year -old really belongs to the elite.
On Saturday, the cheerful dust told reporters: “We have reached this point, but we want to continue this path.
“I am fully enjoying the ability to work with my training staff and this team. We have an incredible atmosphere on the side.”
“The greatest miracle”
On Wednesday, the hosts may be inspired by the return of Liverpool five years ago under the leadership of their former coach, Juergen Klopp, but they are not delusions of the task.
Dortmund was 2-2 in Bayern on Saturday, a welcome response after The Drubing in Barcelona.
“We need the greatest miracle in the history of Borussia Dortmund” to reach the semi -finals.
Ricken, a local producer who was among the scorers on the greatest night in the club – his final victory for the Champions League in 1997 – is not strange for the big European nights in black and yellow.
“We have to try to win, whether it’s enough to advance, I don’t know.”
He described himself as “optimistic but realistic”, Dortmund coach Niko Kovak said his team wanted to save the face on Tuesday.
But without spark, the spark of hope will not be logical.
“Our ambition is to win the game. Is it 1-0, 2-1? We are playing at home so we would like to give a gift to all our supporters.”
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