Champions League Night
Good day, everyone, and welcome to my blog. It is Champions League week again, and this week will be different as the final result of the Champions League round of sixteen will be revealed after both teams have gone head to head for 90 minutes in the second leg of the competition. It is going to be an interesting two days, and it will be talked about for the rest of the week. FC Barcelona will be playing at home to Benfica this night in the return leg of the competition, and it is important to note that FC Barcelona is on a 1-goal lead ahead of Benfica for the game this evening.
Barcelona has been relentless so far in the competition. They did an incredible job in Lisbon with 10 men to smuggle away with one goal lead at Benfica's home stadium last week, but the job is not over yet as they need to finish it at home this evening to book their spot in the quarter-final of the competition this season. Benfica shouldn't be overlooked as well because they have put up an incredible performance against Barcelona in the two times both teams met in the UCL.
Benfica have managed to find a solution to Barcelona's Highline if you watch their two matches against the Catalan side you see Benfica has been sending the long ball behind Barcelona's defence so the strikers can make that late run behind the defence to avoid being caught offside and I am sure they will try to implement this pattern of play when the face Barcelona this evening. Barcelona will be missing Cubarsi for this fixture due to the youngster picking up a red card in the last match, so the probable defence pair for this game will be Ronald Araujo and Inigo Martinez.
Barcelona has a good chance of going into this match and finishing it up even as early in the first half and avoiding any form of slip-up because every Barca fan knows how whenever we think our team is already at the promising land then all of a sudden one mistake happens and everything begins to fall and at the end, the team don't make it to the next round of the Champions League. This year has to be different and many Barcelona fans want to see the hunger from the player to go into this match and seal the victory.
Barcelona has released the squad list for the match, and later in the day before the match, keep off with starting lineups if both teams will be released on their official social media pages. It is going to be an interesting match, and I am looking forward to seeing this team make it to the next round of the competition. As I have always said, Hansi Flick has done an incredible job with this team, which most Barcelona fans thought was not good enough to compete in top European competition, but now that is not the case because they are doing incredibly well under Flick.
It will be all to play for this evening and may the best team wins. So, guys, that will be all for now. Thanks for stopping by and have a good day.
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