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#1 Correcting the mistakes of last season
Ernesto Valverde's Barcelona have become famous for cracking under pressure, having let go of comfortable first-leg leads in both the 2017-18 and the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League knockout stages. They were eliminated in the away legs against AS Roma and Liverpool respectively.
In 2017-18, Barcelona had trounced AS Roma 4-1 in the first leg at Camp Nou, only to crumble under increased pressure and a boisterous hostile home crowd in Rome, eventually getting mauled 3-0.
In 2018-19, the Blaugrana failed to learn from their earlier mistakes, losing the away leg of the UCL semi-final 4-0 at Anfield to Liverpool, after having won the first leg at home 3-0.
Valverde must take care to not let this same cycle of complacency and inability to handle high-pressing and fast counter attacking teams recur. While the arrival of new talents that add to his squad, it is the mentality of Barcelona that must change and the manager has to take the right steps to ensure that happens.
