According to UEFA, Koeman’s team is the only one that did not record shots on goal
Times have changed. If before it was scary to face Barcelona, now that fear has transferred to Barcelona. The numbers sing and the UEFA statistics are terrible for the Catalans. Against Bayern (0-3), it was the first time in the history of the Champions League in which Barcelona did not shoot on goal. Against Benfica (3-0), it happened again: zero shots on goal. In fact, according to UEFA, the team of Koeman, after these two games, it’s right now is the most harmless of all those who compete in international competition in the 2021-22 season. And that is almost 100 …
Barcelona, zero points, zero goals and zero shots on goal
Among the 32 clubs that play the Champions League, the 32 that play the Europa League and the 32 that play the Conference League, There are 96 teams that participate in any of the three European competitions. After losing at home 0-3 to the Juventus and 4-0 in Russia against Zenit, only the Swedish Malmo worsens the numbers of a Barça Neither has he added points or scored goals in his two games, with the Barça team conceding three goals from Bayern Munich at the Camp Nou and another three from Benfica in Lisbon.
In fact, Malmo and Barcelona are two of the only five teams that don’t know what it’s like to score a goal in the current edition of the Champions League. Neither did the Dynamo Kiev (next rival of the Spaniards), the Inter de Milan and the Shakhtar Donetsk, although these three teams at least they have already scored a point in the most important tournament on the continent.
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In the Europa League, only the Brondby Denmark (a draw and a loss), the Rangers Scotland and the Rapid Vienna Austria (both two defeats) have not been able to shout a goal in their international competition either, but they conceded three goals less than the Catalan side.
In the Conference League they did not score goals either Flora Estonia (0 points, -3 differential), the Anorthosis Cyprus (0, -4) and the Maccabi Haifa of Israel (0, -3), but none worsens that record of 0 points and -6 differential that Barcelona has. In the new UEFA competition, the Mura it equals Barça’s record, although the Slovenians (7 goals against) at least had the pleasure of scoring. It was this Thursday, at 5-1 at the home of Tottenham.