Barcelona play their largest European recreation of the season thus far once they welcome Copenhagen to Camp Nou for the ultimate recreation of the Champions League league section in search of an enormous win to safe a Top 8 end and an automated spot within the Round of 16.
Here’s how we predict Hansi Flick will line up his troops for Wednesday’s battle:
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Defense
It’s a very powerful European recreation of the season and Barça have to win by at the least two or three targets to have an actual shot at a Top 8 end, so Flick will undoubtedly go along with his strongest doable lineup for this one.
The again 4 in entrance of Joan Garcia picks itself for this one: Jules Kounde and Alejandro Balde at full-back, and Pau Cubarsí alongside Gerard Martín at center-back. There’s a non-zero likelihood that Ronald Araujo makes his first begin in two months given the bodily nature of Copenhagen’s strikers, however we nonetheless suppose the captain will stay on the bench for this one and Flick will go along with a again 4 that’s appeared fairly stable ever since Gerard Maldini began enjoying centrally.
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Midfield
It’s robust to reach at a very powerful recreation of the season thus far with out the world-class double pivot of Frenkie de Jong (suspension) and Pedri (damage), however Barça nonetheless have sufficient midfield choices to place collectively a stable trio for this one. Eric Garcia is a lock to begin on the base of midfield in Frenkie’s absence, and we predict Flick will be daring and begin each Fermin López and Dani Olmo as attack-minded quantity 8’s in a extra basic 4-3-3 setup, trusting that Eric can present sufficient safety because the defend to the backline.
Attack
Ferran Torres stays a doubt for this one with a hamstring difficulty, and except The Shark is able to return and begin there isn’t a doubt concerning the ahead trio for a must-win, must-score recreation: Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski, and Raphinha.
Possible XI: Joan; Kounde, Cubarsí, Martín, Balde; Fermín, Eric, Olmo; Yamal, Lewandowski, Raphinha (4-3-3)
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