"We believed and arrogant, and now we are on a tightrope." A rational culé.
When discussed in the press that the club will go up next week (after the 3-1 defeat last night in the field of Inter Milan in Champions League game) and you need a male to advance to the final not enough emphasis is to explain how difficult it will be. At least, if you look at history. No team has won the Champions League two years running but that is no more complicated statistics to be broken. And all because Inter Milan has won the two-goal lead facing the second leg, something no team had managed in the semifinals of the 5 previous years.
In season 2004/05 , Milan beat PSV Eindhoven
2-0 in the first leg of the semifinals. Until yesterday, this was the biggest lead he had gotten a semifinalist team over another in the first leg of the last 12 years. The last time that had happened before was in season 1997/98 , when the R. Madrid won 2-0 at Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the semifinals played in the Bernabeu. In both cases, the losing team could not overcome in the second leg (PSV was eliminated by the double value of away goals (3-1) and the Germans went from a tie to 0). the past 30 years, only in DOS times a team has come back two goals in a semi-final European Cup / Champions League. If it's any consolation to us for the Catalans, one of them starred ship in 1986 against Gothenburg. And rallied 3 goals.
But the bad news for Barca statistics do not end there. Since there is a format Champions League (18 years), only in DOS sometimes have traced two goals in the playoffs (playoffs from knockout round). Both times were in the same issue ( 2003-04) and two in Quarterfinals: Deportivo la Coruna overturned a 4-1 to Milan (4-0 in Riazor) and Monaco beat Real Madrid (4-2 in the first leg 3-1 in the round).
The previous history, in the European Cup, is found in the year 1989 when, in the quarterfinals on Turkish Galatasaray won 5-0 at Neuchatel Switzerland, neutralizing the 3-0 first-leg. To this, add three cases in 21 years of play-offs (of sixteen onwards).
However, it must be said: the end of the 2004/05 season , neutralized Liverpool AC Milan 3 goals in just half time and then won on penalties. That is a unique case in 55-year history of the continental tournaments. Comparable only to what made the R. Madrid at the end of the first European Cup in History ( 1956), in which they rallied from a 0-2 to Stade de Reims and ended up winning 4-3.
Although it remains to be playing around, the statistics said that the club is "fotutos." But, as they say, the statistics are to be broken. After all, Inter 38 years ago has not played a final of the continental showpiece.
well Guardiola ago asking for the support of the fans for the second leg. If by statistics, you're going to make much needed.
ERRATA: The precedent of a 2-0 Champions League semi-finals, before the Milan-PSV was not R.Madrid-Borussia Dortmund (97/98), but the Bayern Munich-R.Madrid (99/00). Therefore, there are two precedents in 10 years (or three in 12 years). However, in all cases, there was no comeback in the second leg.
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