What could have went wrong for a team who had already claimed the league and with the season about to wrap up with just two games remaining to fight for the unbeaten streak? well the answer lied at Ciutat de València where Barcelona met Levante for the very last time of this season. Levante UD’s coach “Francisco José López Fernández” was blessed with Valverde resting the all time greatest Lionel Messi and also the absence of Samuel Umtiti and Gerard Pique at the backline, leaving valverde with just the option of playing Yerry Mina and Thomas Varmaelen. Now looking forward to the front line of Levante with Emmanuel Boateng and Roger Marti upfront, combintion of young blood , pace and passion against relatively unsettled and slow Mina and Varmaelen. Levante opened the game at just 9 minutes when Luis Morales produced an individual spark and passed the ball to Boateng, who did’t fail to find the net against the german keeper who did manage to get a hand on the ball but failed to keep it out of reach of the Ghana forward.
Now coming to the match facts!
With the traditional 4-3-3 and barcelona playing full backs higher up the pitch the backline was left with just Mina and Varmaelen, even Busi who plays as the pivot between the two center-backs was not present until the second goal was scored. After the 2nd goal Busi was put into much deep midfield role to help out the backline, until then Coutinho found the net with a brilliant curler from out-side the box. Varmaelen was substituted with Gerard Pique with a hamstring injury and the half time ended with 2-1.
The start of second half was even more disastrous when again Bracelona were caught in the lighting fast counter attack and very soon Enis Bardhi and Boateng found the net at 46′ and 49′ minutes of the game. 
Look at the images above, Marti passing the ball to Enis Bardhi with Busi not marking bardhi who was in the danger zone of barcelona and as a result boom! a goal by Bradhi.
A miss pass by alba resulting in a counter-attack by morales with no one marking Bardhi who was making a run and scored with perfection.
Semedo out of position resulting Luna absolutely free to make a run, while alba again failing to keep up with boateng, mina too slow and gaveup later boateng scored a textboo
Nelseniho the name given by ‘cules’ to the Portuguese full back Nelson Semedo, had a below par game and often strayed out of position. With the 5th goal scored the game was done and dusted then when Phileppe Coutinho decided to take the game on and score his first ever hattrick in the balugrana colours. Later in the game Suarez scored from the penalty to make the scoreline 5-4 with Barcelona still trailing.
With errors all-over the season costing the UCL campaign and now the unbeaten streak, what changes do you guys think Barcelona needs to overcome the European crisis? Comment down below.
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