VIKTORIA PLZEN – BARCELONA | Tuesday 9pm
Four points from five matches. And elimination, for the second year running, from the Champions League group stage. Xavi’s Barcelona deserved to be out of Europe’s top competition as they lost the double-header to Bayern Munich and, above all, in the two matches they played, they never managed to beat Simone Inzaghi’s Inter. So just so with an away match at Viktoria Plzen that tastes bitter in the mouth for the Catalans. Who obviously want to end on a high, for what that word means at the moment. It will certainly be an opportunity for many to show off, as there should be several changes from the usual starting line-up. A massive turnover is what the blaugrana coach has in mind, against a team that in five games has conceded twenty goals and is stuck at zero.
Now, to think that Viktoria Plzen can manage to score is beyond logic. The Czechs, as expected, have really shown themselves to be a team incapable of playing at this level and, above all, it is unclear how they could have made it to the group stage. In a nutshell, a destiny written and sealed as early as the draw. In all this, of course, a victory for Barcelona seems a foregone conclusion with little chance of anything else happening.
Plzen in the match against Inter
The Prediction
Massive turnaround for Xavi, who will at least try to take their second win in the round against Plzen. The only team beaten by the Catalans in this European campaign. A match that obviously has nothing to say and will only be worthwhile for statistics. A match that should also give at least three goals in total.
Viktoria Plzen-Barcelona matchday squad
- VIKTORIA PLZEN (3-5-2): Stanek; Hejda, Pernica, Tijani; Havel, Jirka, Bucha, Kalvach, Mosquera; Vikanova, Bassey.
- BARCELONA (4-3-3): ter Stegen; Bellerin, Pique, Alonso, Balde; Kessie, Busquets, De Jong; Dembele, Ferran Torres, Raphinha.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-3
