Barcelona looking for a chimera to survive in the Champions League

The Interista team’s punch-in, combined with Barça’s victory over Bayern, will allow azulgranas to come with options to qualify for the round of 16 on the final day.

Even so, it wouldn’t be easy, because Italians must drop in on a Munich visitagainst an opponent who is no longer in danger as they are mathematically classified first in the group and Xavi Hernández’s men won the final match in the Czech Republic.

Although they are no longer dependent on themselves and are able to start their game by being officially eliminated from the biggest continental competition, the Catalan team prepared the fight against Bayern, realizing that whatever happens at Milan they owe their fans a significant debt: good looks and finally defeating one of the land monsters of recent years. .

negative balance against Bayern

And a humiliating 2-8 in the quarter-finals of the 2019-2020 Champions League, since then Barcelona have also lost in the next three games against the Bavarian team. 0 goals and 8 counter negative balance.

The last one was at Allianz Arena this season (2-0), but there azulgranas managed to break the trend and didn’t deserve to lose the match, far from that.

Inter’s 3-3 win at Camp Nou left almost no choice, Xavi Hernández’s team was ‘touched’, making it look bad at the Bernabéu (3-1), but in the next two league games Villarreal’ rebounded against. (3-0) and Athletics Club (4-0).

Tomorrow he will try to chain his own team against Bayern. Third victory with eleven where one of his key men on the defense will remain lowCentre Ronald Araujo And neither will Sergi Roberto, who dislocated his collarbone against Bilbao.

Defender Andreas Christensen and forward Memhpis Depay are still in the infirmary. However, midfielder Pablo Páez Gavira ‘Gavi’, who was unable to finish his game against the Athletic due to a blow to his groin, has trained with the group today and will be able to participate, although Xavi could let him down in the starting lineup.

Raphinha points to reputation

Who could return to the starting 11, backup winger Raphael Dias ‘Raphinha’ against Ernesto Valverde’s team and who could it be? With it, the attacker can create trident Robert Lewandowski and one Ousmane Dembele He’s in grace after signing a goal and three assists against Athletic.

Bayern are coming to a duel against Barcelona after surviving a mini-crisis without a four-game win in the Bundesliga and chaining two back-to-back wins against Freiburg and Hoffenheim.

In the German Cup, they defeated Augsburg 2-5 and made it to the last 16, and in this process, they took revenge for their defeat in the Bundesliga, their only game of the season so far.

In the Champions League, Bayern count their games by wins, they are guaranteed to qualify for the last 16 and they only lose two of their games and if Inter wins the remaining two they will lose the first place in the group.

German box comes to appointment with casualties of goal Manuel Neuer, Lucas Hernández and Leroy Sané. Thomas Müller, who has muscle problems, is back in training and will probably be in the squad, although he hasn’t started.

Cameroon’s Eric-Maxim Choupo Moting has done great with goals and assists in the last games and will most likely start again in the starting squad tomorrow.

As for Sadio Mane, One of the star signings of this season with Mahtjis De Lightalternate candidate.

In his first match with Barça, Sven Ulreich instead of Neuer should be in the goal, De Ligtht should form a central matchup with Dayot Upamecano instead of Lucas Hernández, and Leon Goretzka will replace Marcel Sabitzer in the midfield. .