We were very special in the 6-1 victory. We won almost every duel. We were first on the ball. We made PSG know that they will suffer to get through, and boy did they suffer in the end. Just because we scored some weird goals doesn't mean we were not special.
We were special, and the Camp Nou knew from the start that that night had the chances of being a really big big night.
Against Madrid on Bernabeu I did not expect us to dominate the game. Madrid, with all their so called superiority played against Barca as if they respected us too much. Yes, they won two CLs in a row, and La Liga. But I still don't feel they are in any way superior when we play them. Carvajal seemed like a freak of nature against Bayern, but when we play them, Neymar and Messi make him look like a bum.
Tell me, did it seem in the two clasicos we played against Madrid that they controlled the midfield in any way? Hell no. That Madrid midfield which people call so much better than ours didn't dominate shit. It was an even game in midfield, precisely because in Clasicos the motivation is the same all around. All players play close to their best level. Busi, Rakitic, Iniesta, when at their best, can match any midfield in the world still.
The problem, I keeep saying, is that we need to be closer to our best more often, and we must make sure that in the biggest occasions we always show the best version of ourselves. The problem last season was that we didn't do that.