In the time of Barcelona Pep Guardiola, the former Mexican technician Miguel Mejia Baron I always wrote that he liked to watch the culé team matches, because he won or lost, he always gave a good example
For the match against Paris Saint-Germain, far from the Catalans’ most loyal fans who dream of a historic comeback, Barcelona can be expected to end the line of ridiculousness every time they are eliminated from the Champions League. .
The minimum that can be required from a club as big as Barça is to compete, to put in one’s hands, to be present at the game. He’s down 4-1 and, from what he saw in the first leg, he doesn’t have enough arguments to beat an opponent who is clearly superior in practically every way today.
Koeman can – and should – say that “there are no impossibilities” and Joan Laporta proclaims that if they can be traced back to PSG at all, the achievement is within reach. They play their part and will not be defeated in Paris.
The truth is, neither sticking to Leo Messi and expecting him to deliver one of his traditional epic performances will suffice.
The comeback (from a 0-2) to Sevilla in the Copa del Rey Semi-final, the rebound in La Liga (in which they are second to three points behind Atlético) or appeal to the memory of 6-1 four years ago against the same rival , they are not football arguments for believing in a new achievement.
Barcelona dragged four years of embarrassing eliminations into maximum club-level competition: Juventus, Roma, Liverpool and Bayern Munich … And if that wasn’t enough, in the first leg against PSG at the Camp Nou ate a 1-4 and was shown from head to toe.
For 13 years that Barça has not been out in the Champions League Round of 16, and everything indicates that this statistic will be broken. But even if it is deleted, the forms will have to be changed this time.
The team led by Ronald Koeman is obliged to compete, not drag its history, to be respected even in defeat, to lead by example, as Miguel Mejía Barón said.
No more ridiculous like the one in Rome, not another ‘tragedy’ like the one at Anfield, not to mention the debacle and the 8-2 in Lisbon … No more, Barcelona. Join in, put your hands in it and say goodbye with dignity.