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BARCELONA – Barcelona returns to Eindhoven after 21 years. On December 10, 1997, it was the third and final time in the Champions League that the Barca team, that night of the orange, had visited the PSV at the Philips Stadion, from 2-2. Before, however, the Dutch club had directly marked Johan Cruyff's continental history in Barcelona.
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And it is that PSV Eindhoven is not a rival in the continental history of Barca. This is the last team that he faced as a Barça footballer in the European competition Johan Cruyff, in 1978, and the last that Barça eliminated under his command as a coach.
The "Flying Dutchman" was eliminated in. He bid farewell as a Barça footballer for the PSV at a legendary tie and then, after 18 years, he avenged the bench of substitutes … Without suspecting that this confrontation with the # The Eindhoven team would be the last one it would surpbad as a Barça coach I would stop badly a month later.
Cruyff He was sacked from Barça in 1977-1978 and, as had been the case twice, was anchored in the semi-finals of the European competition. If Leeds United in 1975 European Cup and Liverpool in 1976 UEFA Cup eliminated it in the last round, it is in 1978 that the PSV separated from the final, after a shock epic set under Camp Nou rain
"He is an accomplished actor in the region," said Kees Rijvers, coach of the Eindhoven team, after opposing the return match played on April 12, 1978, when Barça had been beaten insufficiently. 3-1 against the 3-0 of the first leg in the Netherlands. On March 29, the Michels team sank with a clean, spectacular lead, from Olmo to which two other Lubse and Postuma succeeded to make this comeback a supernatural challenge.
If in the eighth end of the month Barcelona beat Bobby Robson 3-0 at Ipswich Town and, in the quarterfinals, he eliminated Aston Villa who, four years later, won the European Cup. The semi-final was an insurmountable wall, a night that had started badly. The Catalan city and that made the challenge impossible.
Cruyff had already announced his departure at the end of the season. There was only a month left to hold elections for the presidency of Barca and Camp Nou was not the expected pressure pot … But the Barça team at 19 minutes was already 2- 0, thanks to a penalty taken on Johan and transformed by Rexach and a new goal from Fortes … Everything was finished at the beginning of the second half. 9004] Barca's defensive indecision ended at 47 with Deacy's 2-1 score and no other penalty for Cruyff, also transformed by Rexach, was enough. The 3-1 final represented the elimination of Barça and the farewell of the Dutch idol at the continental level, just one week before the last match of the Copa del Rey, as the Azulgrana team had won against Madrid in Las Palmas. [19659004] "They called Cruyff" hunting dogs ", lamented Michels after the match against PSV, who had already become a special enemy of Barcelona and Cruyff, who fell victim to the first leg 3-0 at night. a very hard watch on the ground and a deafening scream in the stands
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It was the elimination, the sad European farewell of footballer Johan at Barça against an opponent A month later, he won the UEFA Cup by winning French Bastia in the final …
Revenge will be played after 18 years, which will be the last season of Johan Cruyff as' s. Barcelona coach. It was during the 1995-96 season, when the Catalan team also found themselves in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals of the tournament. The first leg, played at Camp Nou, ended in a worrying draw 2-2 … And on the return, after the PSV matched the 0-2 with which Barça had advanced, a legendary race of Sergi Barjuán emerged that took place in the last 2-3 who gave the ranking to the team that headed Cruyff.
Cruz y cara, it was his last good night as coach of Barça, since a month later, Franz Beckenbauer's Bayern Munich eliminated him in half-time. final.
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