Barça meet again this Saturday on the road to Unai emery, Villarreal coach, a coach who has not had good fortune in his previous duels against the Catalans. Emery He has faced Barça on 27 occasions and has a balance of only two victories, six draws and 19 defeats, being his particular ‘black beast’. In addition, the goal differential for (31) and against (70) in these matches shows that Emery he is not good when it comes to Barça.
The last defeat of Emery against Barça was on April 25 at the Estadio de la Cerámica, where the then team of Koeman he won 1-2 with a double of Griezmann to trace the initial goal of Chukwueze. In the first round of last league, barça had already won 4-0 at the Camp Nou.
The Basque coach achieved his first victory against the Catalans with Sevilla in the 2015-16 season, after 20 games. It was in the duel at Sánchez Pizjuán in LaLiga and the Andalusians won 2-1 with goals from Krohn-Dehli and Iborra, while Neymar scored the Barça goal. The second triumph of Emery Against Barça he came when he was leading Paris Saint-Germain, in the first leg of the 2016-17 Champions League round of 16, but it was the bitterest victory of his career. The French thrashed in the Parc des Princes 4-0, with a double of Say Maria and two more goals from Draxler and Cavani, but on the return from Camp Nou there was the historic comeback by 6-1 with the agonizing goal of Sergi Roberto in the last breath.
In his first precedent against Barça as Villarreal coach, Emery he was beaten again at the Camp Nou (4-0), with two doubles of Ansu Fati and Messi, the second with the help of Pau Torres.