Barcelona: The darkest night before dawn?

If they do not quickly improve their performance, the Camp Nou home team will find it difficult to avoid a "disastrous" season. At this time, in the La Liga arena, before the 12th round,Barcelonais temporarily in 9th place with 15 points. The gap with the leading team Real Sociedad is up to 9 points, equal to the number of points from 3 wins.

In his new position, will Xavi Hernandez help Barcelona return to its golden age?

While Real Sociedad, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid or Sevilla are gradually getting into a stable orbit, the Camp Nou team is like an "unfinished construction site", with turmoil both on the coaching bench and in the quality of the players. For Barcelona to surpass Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the race for the La Liga 2021/2022 championship is extremely fragile.

Not only facing difficulties in La Liga, but also in the group stage of UEFA Champions League this season, Gerard Pique and his teammates are also facing the risk of being eliminated early. With 3 points after 3 matches, Barcelona is drowning in the second to last position of Group E. Obviously, the possibility of the Camp Nou team having to play in Europa League is not small.

However, for the cules (the nickname of Barcelona fans), the team's poor performance this season is not too surprising, especially after star Lionel Messi left Camp Nou to join Paris Saint-Germain (France). It is simply that every team has to go through a transition period, and Barcelona is no exception.

Witnessing what Gerard Pique and his teammates are going through, fans have associated it with the 2007/2008 season. The failure of the Catalan team in La Liga (winning 3rd place) and UEFA Champions League (eliminated by Man United in the semi-finals), forced coach Frank Rijkaard to sadly pack his bags and leave Camp Nou.

Instead of giving the "hot seat" to famous strategists, the Barcelona Board of Directors chose coach Pep Guardiola. Don't forget, at the time he accepted to replace coach Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola was the current head coach of the Barcelona B team. A brave decision by the Barcelona Board of Directors.

Under the leadership of coach Pep Guardiola, the Camp Nou team won 3 consecutive La Liga championships (2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011), 2 UEFA Champions League championships (2008/2009 and 2010/2011), and many other big and small titles. This is considered the "golden" period of the team nicknamed Blaugrana.

According to information spread in the newspapers in the "land of bulls", it is almost certain that the person who will succeed the role of coach Ronald Koeman is coach Xavi Hernandez. The cules are hoping that coach Xavi Hernandez will help the home team reap many glories, something that his predecessor, coach Pep Guardiola, did in the past./.