After their shocking 4–0 away defeat to Paris Saint-Germain, followed by a miraculous 6–1 comeback at home, many people felt that the heavy away loss had merely been an unfortunate accident and that it could not happen again.
But no one had expected Barcelona to be humiliated so quickly. They had gone away again and lost 3–0.
This had been a thoroughly one-sided defeat. In fact, if the referee had not made a mistaken call and disallowed Juventus' goal, Barcelona might have lost 4–0 again—or by an even greater margin.
After the match, the entire European football world erupted. Spain was shaken even more violently, and everyone was wondering what was wrong with Barcelona. Why had this team, packed with superstars, suffered crushing away defeats again and again?
Once might be an accident, but twice in such a short period absolutely was not.
There were reports that Enrique had flown into a rage in the dressing room after the match. He had lambasted Pique and Neymar, believing that both players had performed far below standard. At the same time, he had criticized everyone on the team, saying that they had played without enough intensity.
The Catalan media agreed with Enrique because, according to the match data, Barcelona's players had covered only 99.6 kilometers in total—less than 100 kilometers and a new low for the season.
And that figure had been produced by twelve players!
That was because Barcelona had made only one substitution from start to finish.
On average, each player had covered less than ten kilometers. How pitiful was that?
Compared with Barcelona, Juventus, their opponents, had covered a total distance of 108.7 kilometers as a team—enough to add the distance of an entire Barcelona player. It was simply outrageous.
Mundo Deportivo analyzed the match afterward and said that