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That’s what happened when their shocking defeat at home to Hercules and their unconvincing draw against Mallorca saw them lack in second position behind Real Madrid in La Liga. But when it mattered the most, the Catalans revealed their true faces by trouncing Los Blancos in El Clasico.
Honestly, could there have been a better way for Barcelona to insist that they remain the toughest team to beat in Spain? Still, La Liga has literally not been won yet.
Tonight’s match against Sevilla – which is the first of eleven left in the championship – will contribute in defining Barcelona’s level of concentration. Barcelona’s biggest force, it appears, is their philosophy.
They never seem to look back for too long at a grand victory, so as to lose focus on the battles that are ahead of them. Barca’s beating of Arsenal is in the past now, and they have a La Liga game against Sevilla coming up. But as if the Catalans didn’t have enough fuel in their reserve to carry on until the end of this season, Coach Pep Guardiola has once again shaken his players before they fall asleep.
This term, Los Nervionense aren’t enjoying their best of seasons but Pep isn’t taking anything for granted since Sevilla “have been doing well for several years and are one of the big teams, one of the classics, with good players” as the Barcelona manager explained.
Interestingly, Barcelona are unbeaten away from home in La Liga and they are poised to clinch their thirteenth away victory in fourteen games on Sunday night. But the cautious Guardiola prefers not to be carried away, as he said:
“It is always a hard place to get a result and it’s surprising how much noise the crowd makes. Sevilla is one of the big teams in La Liga and we’ll need to play well.”
For most teams, playing against Barcelona is an honour. But beating them is a dream that only few oppositions have managed to achieve. Sevilla’s Gregorio Manzano would love to be part of those heroes as he revealed during a pre-match press conference.
“We all dream that Barcelona don’t have their best night. It hasn’t happened away from home yet, where they are unbeaten.
“They are so consistent. Hopefully, we will be at our best [on Sunday] and they won’t. That’s the only way to achieve our objective because the game will be very difficult.
“We need to exploit the support of our fans; they are the ones that can give us that extra boost to knock Barcelona off their stride.
“Sometimes the little fish eats the big fish. And is this difficult? Of course, it is. But, it is not impossible.”
Sevilla have also received the backing of Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema who scored a brace against Hercules on Saturday. The Frenchman avowed that he is “really hoping” to see Barca lose, as Los Blancos refuse to give up in La Liga.
Will Barcelona go down against Sevilla on Sunday night? Will La Liga title land at the Santiago Bernabeu this season? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, call that a dream or a miracle…
FC Barcelona: Valdés, Alves, Márquez, Milito, Abidal (Maxwell 53), Xavi, Keita, Busquets, Messi, Bojan (Touré 56), Pedro (Iniesta 86).Arsenal FC: Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Silvestre (Eboué 63), Clichy, Diaby, Rosický (Eduardo 73), Nasri, Walcott, Denilson, Bendtner.
FC Barcelona also came from behind to defeat Arsenal 2-1 in the 2006 final at the Stade de France. Samuel Eto’o and substitute Juliano Belletti scored in quick succession late on to overturn Sol Campbell’s opener for an Arsenal side reduced to ten men by an early red card for Jens Lehmann, the first player sent off in a European Champion Clubs’ Cup final.
The full lineups for that match on 17 May 2006 were:
FC Barcelona: Valdés, Oleguer (Belletti 71), Márquez, Puyol, Van Bronckhorst, Deco, Edmílson (Iniesta 46), Van Bommel (Larsson 61), Giuly, Eto’o, Ronaldinho.Arsenal FC: Lehmann, Eboué, Touré, Campbell, Cole, Pirès (Almunia 20), Gilberto, Fàbregas (Flamini 74), Hleb (Reyes 85), Ljungberg, Henry.
The clubs also met in the 1999/2000 UEFA Champions League group stage. The game in England was played at Wembley where the Catalan giants followed a 1-1 draw in Spain with a 4-2 win. Current coach Josep Guardiola captained Barcelona in both matches while Puyol was on the bench for the Wembley game.
Match background
FC Barcelona won all three home fixtures in finishing top of Group D, overcoming Panathinaikos FC (5-1) and FC København and FC Rubin Kazan (both 2-0). It was the fourth successive year they had topped their section and they have now qualified from the initial group stage in the last nine campaigns in which they have taken part.Last season Barça reached the semi-finals, losing to eventual winners FC Internazionale Milano.
Arsenal FC won their first away game in Group H, 3-1 at FK Partizan, but then lost 2-1 at FC Shakhtar Donetsk and 2-0 at SC Braga to finish second behind Shakhtar.
Arsenal FC are taking part in their 13th UEFA Champions League campaign and this is the 11
FC Barcelona have won 11 ties in UEFA competition when they have lost the first leg away from home – although they have gone down in the other 12, most recently in last season’s UEFA Champions League semi-final when a 1-0 defeat of Inter was not enou
Of the four times they have been defeated 2-1 in an away opener, Barcelona have lost two ties and won the other two.
Arsenal, meanwhile, have won the first leg at home on 15 occasions in UEFA competition, going on tSevilla vs Barcelonao win the tie no less than 14 times. However, their sole defeat came in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals when a 2-1 home win against Spanish opponents – Valencia CF – preceded a 1-0 away reverse.
On the only other occasion the Gunners earned a 2-1 home first-leg lead, against 1. FC Magdeburg, they drew 2-2 in the return.
Arsenal eliminated AS Roma in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League round of 16 7-6 on penalties and beat UC Sampdoria in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals by the same mSevilla vs Barcelona Liveethod but lost final shoot-outs to Valencia (1980 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup) and Galatasaray AŞ (2000 UEFA Cup).
Barcelona have been involved in six shoot-outs in USevilla vs Barcelona Live StreamEFA competition – although none since 1988/89 – and won five. The sole defeat came in the 1985/86 European Cup final against FC Steaua Bucureşti, who won 2-0 on spot kicks after a goalless 120 minutes.
Team ties
In addition to their meetings during 1999/2000, the coaches also lined up against each other when Wenger was coach of AS Monaco FC and Guardiola was a player at Barcelona. Barcelona won home (2-0) and away (1-0) in thBarcelona vs Sevillae 1993/94 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Pep Guardiola was in the Barcelona team that won the European Cup for the first time with a 1-0 extra-time win against Sampdoria in the 1992 final at Wembley.
Thierry Henry, a UEFA Champions League winner with Barcelona in 2009, is Arsenal’s record leBarcelona vs Sevilla Liveague scorer. He hit 174 goals in 254 Premier League appearances, and 226 in 369 matches overall, between 1999 and 2007, when he left for Spain, winnng two league titles and three FA Cups in north London. His first coach when he joined Monaco as a teenager was Wenger.
Cesc Fàbregas left Barcelona to join Arsenal as a 16-year-old in September 2003.
Arshavin was in the Russia side beaten 3-0 in the UEFA EURO 2008 semi-final by a Spain team including Puyol, Villa, Xavi Hernández and Andrés Iniesta along with Fàbregas.Barcelona vs Sevilla Live Stream
Gerard Piqué played once against Arsenal while at Manchester United FC from 2004 to 2008. That appearance, in a 2-1 United win at Old Trafford in April 2008, was his last for the club.
Seydou Keita scored the opening goal for Sevilla FC when they beat Arsenal 3-1 in the UEFA Champions League grou
Javier Mascherano was in the Liverpool FC team that opened the Premier League season with a 1-1 home draw against Arsenal on 15 August. He played against them on seven previous occasions – including a 2007/08 UEFA ChampioSevilla vs Barcelona en direct ns League quarter-final which Liverpool won 5-3 on aggregate – but triumphed in just two of those encounters.
During two seasons with Sevilla, Sébastien Squillaci was on the losing side against Barcelona on three occasions in the Liga, his team shipping a total of ten goals.
Thomas Vermaelen was a team-mate of Maxwell at AFC Ajax from 2001 to 2006.
Vermaelen was in the Belgium team beaten 5-0 by Spain in La Coruna in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in September 2009. Piqué scored for a home side also featuring Puyol, Xavi, Sergio Busquets and Fàbregas.
Van Persie’s NethSevilla vs Barcelonaerlands side lost 1-0 in last summer’s World Cup final to Spain, Iniesta scoring a 116th-minute winner. Villa, Piqué, Puyol, Xavi, Pedro and Busquets all also featured for the victors, as did Fàbregas.
Bacary Sagna and substitute Abou Sevilla vs Barcelona LiveDiaby were in the France side that recorded a 1-0 friendly win against Brazil in Paris on 9 February; Alves appeared for the visitors, with Éric Abidal also in the France ranks.
Watch Barcelona vs Arsenal stream. UEFA Champions League football match start time Tuesday, 08 March, 2011 09:45Sevilla vs Barcelona Live Stream PM. Location is Camp Nou. Where to watch Barcelona vs Arsenal live stream TV online? Maybe this match will be available on Villa played only 34 minutes before tearing a muscle, an injury which ruled him out of Spain’s 1-0 final victory against Germany.
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