Barcelona-Inter | Champions League: Barcelona – Inter: to be or not to be of the azulgranas
Al Barcelona has arrived soon the first season finale. Few could think that in this fourth day of the Champions group the Barça team could be eliminated if they lose against Inter. It is true that the group was complicated with the presence of the Italians and Bayern, but being at the edge of the abyss at the first change it did not enter into the calculations of any. Above all, because the team’s start to the season has been very good.
However, the League is not the Champions League. Barcelona tops the table in domestic competition after stringing together seven wins in a row. He only dropped a couple of points on the opening day against Rayo. Europe is another story. The two complicated outings to the fields of Bayern and Inter ended with two defeats and without the team being able to score a goal in any of those games.
The result is that if Barcelona doesn’t win today, they say goodbye to the competition. The tie does not doom you mathematically, but it does virtually Because it will be enough for Inter to beat Viktoria Plzen at the Giuseppe Meazza to send the Catalans back to the Europa League. Win or win, there is no turning back. Xavi’s team has no choice. The coach’s message has been very clear since the end of the Milan game that he still remembers, and it will take time to forget, a calamitous arbitration of the Slovenian Slavko Vincic: “There is nothing lost.”
They need three wins
Above all, because the classification is in the hands of the azulgranas. Does not depend on third party results, although for this they will have to win today and also the other two games that remain against Bayern at the Camp Nou and at the Viktoria Plzen ground. Leave six points in the first three days you pay very dearly in champions. Only 20% of the teams that did so in the history of the competition managed to qualify. Numbers that discourage, but everything is in your hands.
The game does not come at a good time for the Catalans. On the one hand there is the large number of casualties. The Barça defense is decimated after injuries in the national team break to Kound, Christensen, Araujo and Bellern. Xavi will have to improvise again. In recent games he has been doing various tests, some of them unsatisfactory. Tonight Pique and Eric Garcia They will be fixed, we will have to see who plays next to them.
down in the game
To the problems with the injuries the sports joins. It is a fact that the national team parn has been a hard blow for the team. Barcelona is not the same since then. His game is not good, he could be seen last Sunday against Celta without going any further, and he has lost his goalscoring efficiency. Lewandowski has only been able to score one goal in the last three games, when he was averaging a goal every 60 minutes. And Bara is much less Bara if Lewandowski doesn’t come into play.