Sorry BBZ8800, but the situations are not at all the same. Your pessimism for this game based on 2013 makes no sense.
Perhaps people were confident in that game, but they were wrongly so. But it's natural. We were still having trouble believing that we were no longer the best team in the world (Pep had only left the previous season and even his last season wasn't really successful) and we thought we could just continue off past success.
But the truth is that we struggled to go through Milan and PSG. And even though we were destroying teams in La Liga, was because we relied almost 100% on Messi, who was on his best ever form. Problem is - he got injured, got rushed back, and never fully recovered for months.
Now we're playing well as a team, have never lost an important match against a big opponent, and more importantly we're fully fit, on good form.
For the situation to be more comparable to 2013:
1. MSN (instead of just Messi) would have had to be recently injured and be doubts for the game.
2. Lucho would have had to be missing for the majority of the season.
3. Our team's mentality would have been different.
4. Bayern would have to be significantly stronger and fully fit.
This will be a completely different match. With different managers, different players, and different tactics.
PS: Doesn't mean we'll win though.
I am more confident in the last few days and I think we can go through.
But always, that is just my opinion, no matter is it 1900, 2000 or 2100', the only team I don't want to face is Bayern.
I just think that they are the team who suits us the least out of all teams in the world.
And yes, I know, teams change, players change, coaches change, but some basics (like Barca's DNA, as we like to say), well, Bayern has it's DNA, and their DNA is just the DNA who fits us worst out of all teams in the world.
I would pick to play against Real any day of the week instead against Bayern.
But luckily, they have injuries now, and we are in insane run of wins.
But still, even if we will win, when we will be in the semifinals in 2016, 2017 or 2018, my opinion will just always be: give us any opponent except Bayern.
That doesn't mean that I think that Bayern is better Barca in general, don't get me wrong.
I think that if we face top 10 teams like Bayern, Real, Chelsea, Man. City etc:
= we will usually win 8 matches, and struggle against Bayern and some random opponent
While Bayern will have 6 wins and struggle/lose against 4 random teams out of top10.
In other words:
1. Barca can win against Real
2. Barca can win against Chelsea
3. but Barca will struggle/lose against Bayern more often than win
And then, even though Bayern will usually knock us out, they will on the other hand struggle against Real, Chelsea, xx random teams
(Again, this written above are NOT stats/facts. This is just how I am looking at Barca:Bayern matches and why I hate when we have to play against them).
About my other post, I am saying that people were much more optimistic in 2013, and after the matches they were suddenly: wtf happened?
Now, 2 years later, the story sounds as if we knew that we are crap and that we will lose.
This is not true. We were very, very optimistic before the first kick-off in 2013 as you can see by a surprise of our fans in comments in player's threads after the first match in 2013. (We are now "changing" the history again, a few years later. Revisionism mentioned a lot of times lately on this forum)
