Barça ends its losing streak in the Camp Nou Clásicos

Almost five years later, the barca broke his losing streak against him real Madrid in it Camp Nou and, by the way, he left the League practically sentenced, since the Catalans are already 12 points behind the white team with 36 points to play.

At the premiere of Xavi in a Classic at the Stadium –To date he had played six as a coach but all away from home, with a baggage of 4 wins and 2 losses-, he barca achieved victory after almost five years without doing so thanks to goals from Sergi Roberto and kessiewho traced back the initial 0-1 after the unfortunate play of Araujo.

In the four previous visits of the Madrid to the Camp Nouthe Catalans added two draws and the last two consecutive defeats, (1-3) in the 2020-21 season and a 1-2 last season, both with ronald koeman on the culé bench. Until today, you had to go back to the October 28, 2018 to find the last victory culé in a Classic in it Camp Nou. that day the barca of ernesto valverde thrashed his eternal rival in style (5-1) and without Lionel Messi in the field, injured. The Barcelona won with a ‘hat-trick’ of Suarezanother of Coutinho and another of Arturo vidal. In addition, that culé victory meant the dismissal of Julen Lopetegui as technician of real Madrid.

Third victory in the last decade

In the global of the last decade, with today’s triumph the barca adds a total of three victories. In addition to the aforementioned 5-0, to find the previous victory culé in a Classic at the Camp Nou you had to go back to the 2014-15 season. In the second round of that course, the barca beat by 2-1 in the last Classic of Xavi As a player. Mathieu opened the scoring, Christian tied for the whites and Suarez signed the final 2-1. A win worth one League.

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