Sunday evening saw the Spanish football season begin with the nation's two giants battling it out at the Camp Nou for the Supercopa de E...
Sunday evening saw the Spanish football season begin with the nation's two giants battling it out at the Camp Nou for the Supercopa de Espana, and with Real Madrid taking a commanding 3-1 victory, Barcelona are now a staggering 7-1 to produce an unlikely comeback.
It has been a testing fortnight for both those working within and supporting the Catalan club, with the departure of Neymar and inability to secure key signings quickly leaving Barcelona in a state of flux.
This is hardly ideal preparation for Ernesto Valverde's debut campaign in the dugout and the performance against Los Blancos reflected a rather chaotic pre-season.
Los Cules were never really close to their fierce rivals on the night with Lionel Messi's equalising goal from the penalty spot not really telling the whole story.
With that said you can never count Barcelona out and with the historic comeback against Paris Saint-Germain still fresh in everyone's minds it wouldn't be inconceivable for them to do the same on Wednesday.
For the betting community the view is that Valverde's team will struggle and as such odds of 7-1 have been placed on the visitors to mount a comeback and win the trophy.
In order for such an occurrence to take place Barcelona would need to record one of the following results: 0-3, 1-4 or 2-4.
Recent history shows this is doable with the Blaugrana having managed to record 0-4, 2-6 and 0-3 victories at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu over the course of the last 12 years.
For Barcelona to match the 3-1 scoreline and take the trophy courtesy of a penalty shoot-out, the bookies are offering 19-1 odds.
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