Barcelona are heavy underdogs at home against a team that has given them nightmares in the past, including that 8-2 defeat last year.
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Barcelona will play their first Champions’ League group stage match since Lionel Messi’s shocking departure to PSG. The Spanish club welcomes title contenders Bayern Munich to the Camp Nou on Tuesday. Barca are heavy underdogs at home against a team that has given them nightmares in the past, including that 8-2 defeat in the competition in 2020. Bayern, with a loaded squad and coming off a convincing win over RB Leipzig, are favorites to walk away with Group E, which also includes Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv.
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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) September 14, 2021
Messi’s gone, Antoine Griezmann’s gone, and they brought in very little quality outside of Memphis Depay. Luuk de Jong is hardly the answer in attack, so where is Barca going to get the goals from? This has a chance to get out of hand quickly. Expect Barca, as usual, to hold onto the ball as long as they can, but they are going to need Depay to play the game of his life, show tons of individual brilliance and be involved in at least a couple of goals for this team to even sniff a victory.
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— FC Bayern München (@FCBayern) September 14, 2021
It’s time to pray for the Barca defence, because Bayern will be relishing their chances. In two of their last five games, Bayern were able to score three goals. Well, that pair of three-goal games was actually their worst performance as of late. Four goals against RB Leipzig at the weekend, five at the end of August against Hertha Berlin and 12 against Bremer in the German Cup in August mean Bayern have a total of 27 goals in their last five matches. Expect them to get enough good looks in this one to again score at the very least two, but it wouldn’t be all that shocking if they push four or five goals against a Barca team that is simply overmatched.
The match will be telecasted on Sony TenSports at 12:30 AM IST. For live streaming, you can download the SonyLiv app to stream the match live.
