Former Arsenal striker, Thierry Henry, has expressed doubts about Barcelona’s chances of winning the Champions League if their defensive issues persist.
The Catalan giants were forced to recover from three different deficits to secure a 3-3 draw against Club Brugge on Wednesday.
The result leaves Barcelona 11th in their Champions League group, outside the automatic qualification spots for the last-16 stage, with four games still to play.
Speaking to CBS Sports, Henry was blunt about the club’s defensive struggles. “The co-ordination (in defence) is so bad. You can’t win the Champions League like this, it’s very difficult.
“It’s this game (against Club Brugge), it’s against Paris Saint-Germain, last year it was against Benfica, then it was the Clasico, then it was Inter.
“As we all know, I played for Arsenal, I played for Juve, I won a lot of stuff at Barcelona, for me to say that… it pains me to say that because I don’t want to talk about my old club like that.
“But you have to call a spade a spade. You can’t carry on defending like this. Every time hoping to score three or four, to be the team, not now, not in the modern era of football, you can’t defend like that.”
