Barcelona manager Hansi Flick seems destined to lead the club into the Champions League semi-finals, a major milestone in the teams attempt to regain their place among Europes elite after a difficult ten years, barring an unlikely comeback against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday.
A place in the final four, where Barcelona would likely be tipped to progress further, would mark their most successful European campaign since the departure of club legend Lionel Messi.
Domestically, they are enjoying their strongest season in years - sitting four points ahead of rivals Real Madrid in La Liga with seven games left and also set to face them in the Copa del Rey final.
Since lifting the Champions League trophy in Berlin in 2015, Barcelona have reached the semi-finals only once, in the 2018-19 season - a campaign best remembered for the infamous collapse at Anfield, where they let a 3-0 first-leg advantage slip in a 4-0 defeat to Liverpool.
Their European woes continued the following season with a humiliating 8-2 defeat to Flick's Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. It wasn't until the current 2023-24 season that Barcelona managed to break through to the last eight again. Though they beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 in the first leg last year, they were overwhelmed 4-1 in the return fixture.