Messi and Neymar have helped Barca to dominate but even the best get humiliated sometimes....
#2 Barcelona 0-2 Hercules – 11th September 2010
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Nelson Valdez scored twice to help Hercules to a historic win over Barcelona
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Going into the 2010-11 season, Barcelona were undoubtedly the best club side in the world. Not only had they won both La Liga and the Champions League in 2009-10, a great number of their players – Xavi, Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta, et al – had starred in Spain’s 2010 World Cup triumph.
A September 2010 game against newly-promoted Hercules, then, should’ve been easy. After all, the Alicante-based side hadn’t even been in Spain’s top division for thirteen years prior to the season. In a truly humiliating upset though, Barcelona somehow ended up losing by two goals at the Nou Camp – their first loss there since May 2009.
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Paraguayan striker Nelson Valdez scored both of Hercules’s goals to write himself into that club’s history books, while French World Cup winner David Trezeguet went close to adding a third before being denied by Victor Valdes.
Newly-signed Javier Mascherano had a stinker of a debut, too, being booked in the 19th minute and then hauled off at half-time. Both Barca and Mascherano would go on to have the last laugh – they won La Liga by four points while Hercules were relegated – but this was still a humiliating defeat for the world’s best team.
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