Back to the Soccer Newsfeed

How will Barcelona shape up against Atletico and Real Madrid in 2021-22?

It will come as no shock that Barcelona no longer have the fear-inducing squad they did 10 years ago, but up until only a couple of years ago did we realise the situation was far worse than it seemed.

In 2019, Barcelona were beaten 4-0 by Liverpool in the second-leg of a Champions League semi-final that everyone believed the Catalans had in the bag, having earned a 3-0 victory in the first-leg.

A year later however was when things became truly scary. Barcelona came into the quarter-finals of the same competition as significant underdogs against German destroyers Bayern Munich and were humiliated 8-2 at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.