Evidently there is a favorite team. That of Flick, a great friend of Kovac, current coach of Borussia Dortmund.
“There are no secrets,” the Catalan coach said yesterday at a press conference. The two know each other very well, they worked together at Bayern Munich and they respect each other a lot. But tonight there will be no room for sentiment on the field given the enormous stakes of the match on Spanish soil. Barcelona is one of the favorites to make it to the end of this event, also and above all because of the players they have up front. Of course, Borussia was the last finalist, but we think it’s unlikely that the Germans will be able to repeat last year’s achievement. But honestly, these are subjects that don’t interest us much in this article, here we’re going to see who the bookies think will be the red cards.
Barcelona-Borussia Dortmund predictions: our choices for the bookies
Let’s start with the visitors who know full well that they will have to play a perfect defensive game – and also need a lot of luck – if they are to keep their qualification hopes alive in the return leg. Yamal in particular is the number one danger and should be playing near Bensebaini: the defender has 10 Champions League appearances, accompanied by 4 yellow cards. In the Bundesliga, on the other hand, he has picked up 6 yellow cards in 25 appearances. Almost a sentence.
Eight appearances in Europe’s top competition and 2 yellow cards, on the other hand, for Inigo Martinez, Barcelona’s central defender. Kovac should field Adeyemi, very fast in the role of second striker alongside Guirassy, and the player could find himself not only in difficulty in the event of a breakaway – perhaps on a counterattack, there could be many – but also forced to make a tactical foul to avoid worse trouble. In short, among the Catalan squad, he is the most likely to get a yellow card.
Bensebaini one yellow card plus, and Inigo Martinez one yellow card plus, on Goldbet, are worth 12.98 times the stake.