Granada 2-0 Barcelona: 4 Talking Points | LaLiga 2019/2020

#3 More away woes for Barcelona

Valverde cannot but an away victory

Barcelona are without Champions League glory since 2015, and a large reason for this has been down to their disastrous performances away from home.

Some of their away displays have been truly atrocious, and the consequent scorelines and fall-backs are well known, so it is futile repeating them here.

It is one thing to lose away from home to the PSG and Liverpool, but it is an entirely different and unacceptable proposition to not impose your will on smaller teams for a club the size of Barcelona.

The loss against Granada marked Barcelona's third away league fixture of the season, and they have failed to win any, while they also drew with Dortmund in the Champions League.

The Catalans are winless away from home for seven consecutive matches, and one would have to go all the way back to the end of April for Barcelona's last away win in a competitive fixture; a 2-0 defeat of Alaves at the Estadio Mendizorrozata.

Granada was the second newly promoted team in succession that Barcelona faced away in the league after Osasuna, and it is rather disappointing that the champions failed to win either, conceding four and scoring just two.

By contrast, if both fixtures had been played at Camp Nou, you can be sure that the two minnows would be on the receiving end of a major whooping, and this away setbacks must be eliminated pretty quickly before Barcelona's season descends into chaos.