Barcelona
will kick off their Champions League campaign with an opening group game
against Juventus.
Kick Off:
19:45 BST
Date: Tuesday
12 September 2017
Venue: Camp
Nou, Barcelona
Referee Appointment: Damir
Skomina (Slovenia)
Stream
Guide: Watch Live
Team News:
Barcelona
Ousmane
Dembélé is hoping to get a full debut against the Italian giants tomorrow.
Barcelona
are not expected to make any big changes to the squad. Sergio Roberto could be
recalled as Nelson Semedo is out through a knee injury.
Rafinha
remains the only long term absentee.
The
visitors have many concerns ahead of their opening Champions League game. Juan
Cuadrado is suspended for this game as he picked up a red card in the final
last season.
Stephan
Lichtsteiner and Marko Pjaca both are not included in the 25 men squad.
Alex
Sandro and Benedikt Höwedes both are back but are not ready for first team
action.
Giorgio
Chiellini, Mario Mandzukic, Sami Khedira and Claudio Marchisio all remain out
through injury.
Daniele
Rugani, Andrea Barzagli and Medhi Benatia are eyeing to get a spot in the Max
Allegri’s starting lineup.
Possible Lineups:
Stats:
Barcelona
have won two of their last six games against Juventus in all campaigns.
Juventus
are unbeaten in their last two games against Barca at Camp Nou.
Barcelona
have won only one of their last four games in Champions League.
Predictions:
Barcelona
2 – 1 Juventus, Lionel Messi to score brace for the home side.
Columinst: Junaid Effendi, is the Chief Editor of Football News Guru. He writes Transfer News and all the match related articles. See all his articles.
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