Barcelona vs. Manchester United: day, hour and channel of the duel for Champions League
Barcelona will try on Tuesday to make the 0-1 of Old Trafford to eliminate Manchester United and peek into the semifinals of the Champions League four years later. In the three previous seasons, a Spanish team (Atlético de Madrid) and two Italians (Juventus and Roma) were the executioners of the Catalans.
Barcelona vs Manchester United
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In the Camp Nou the men of Ernesto Valverde will try that the English group does not join the payroll of squads that brought them down from the European dream in recent years.
By sensations, by statistics and by football, Barcelona has it very close. Chains 30 unbeaten matches in their feud in the Champions League and United has never won in Barcelona: has paid two losses and two draws his four visits.
The last time the azulgranas were in the semifinals was in 2015 and the team that then directed Luis Enrique Martinez ended up winning the triple.
This course, with the League practically in the pocket and qualified for the final of the Copa del Rey, is in a position to repeat the feat.
Valverde is aware of this and knows that achieving it again means progressing tomorrow until the next round. Therefore, in the last league game against Huesca he took the rotations to the extreme.
They stayed in Barcelona Leo Messi, Ivan Rakitic, Sergi Roberto, Sergio Busquets and the suspended Gerard Piqué and Luis Suarez. Clement Lenglet was substitute and Jordi Alba, Philippe Coutinho and Arthur Melo played only a few minutes in the inconsequential draw (0-0) of El Alcoraz.
The technician of the Catalan team, therefore, will be able to line up against United to their 4-3-3 gala, with the only doubt of whether Ousmane Dembélé, who started in Huesca after overcoming an injury, will replace Philippe Coutinho in the hat trick attacker with Messi and Suarez.
Manchester United, meanwhile, comes to the appointment at a time when it can finally collapse. The 0-1 of the first leg, motivated by Luke Shaw's own goal, has brought distrust to a team that suffered to get the three points in the Premier this weekend.
He got it with a somewhat controversial penalty from Paul Pogba, who against West Ham United scored a double to continue in the Champions League battle.
The hopes of a miracle in the Camp Nou at the level of what happened in the Parc des Princes against Paris Saint Germain seem minimal. It will try to obtain it without Shaw, sanctioned by accumulation of yellow, and with the obligation to remove an eleven more offensive than in Old Trafford.
Therefore, it is expected that Solskjaer will return to 4-3-3 that he dispensed with in the first leg and form up with Romelu Lukaku, Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford. The ownership of Alexis Sánchez, who has entered the call after recovering from an injury, seems unlikely.
In the middle is where there are more alternatives, but you may trust Scott McTominay and Fred before the casualties of Ander Herrera and Nemanja Matic, although there is a game in which risk with players in doubt this may be.
The loss of Shaw will move Dalot, midfielder, to the side, while the other three members of the rear will be the irreplaceable Victor Lindelof, Chris Smalling and Ashley Young.
Barcelona vs. Manchester United - Probable lineups:Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Semedo, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, Rakitic, Arthur; Messi, Coutinho and Luis Suárez.
Manchester United: De Gea; Young, Lindelof, Smalling, Dalot; McTominay, Fred, Pogba; Rashford, Lingard and Lukaku.
Referee: Felix Brych (ALE).
Stadium: Camp Nou.
Time: 2:00 p.m. (Peruvian time).
Channel: ESPN 2