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Super Cup defeat to Sevilla in 2006 was the beginning of the end for Ronaldinho-led Barca team

The Catalans are up against the Andalusians in an identical clash nine years on - but they will want to forget the last time they met the Rojiblancos in the European showpiece.

It seems so long ago now. Barely three months after winning the Champions League for the first time (the 1992 crown had been the last in the old European Cup format), Barcelona was well beaten by Sevilla in the 2006 UEFA Super Cup - a defeat that marked the beginning of the end for Frank Rijkaard's impressive team.

Rijkaard's assistant Henk ten Cate had departed that summer to coach Ajax, and the good cop/bad cop alliance was split: without his trusty and more strict sidekick, Rijkaard lost control of his players.