Barcelona: Towards France, Leo Messi will open, Koeman speaks

The home stage of the Champions League will start tomorrow (Tuesday) with quite a few games. for Barcelona This will be a particularly important challenge when after the first loss of the season, 1: 0 against Hattafa, And just before the Clásico against Real Madrid on Saturday – the Spaniards will host the Hungarian Franzvaros (22:00) at the Camp Nou when there is only one possibility – a victory.

This will be the debut of Coman As Barcelona coach in the Champions League, and the Catalans’ first game in Europe after the painful eight: 8: 2 against Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals last year. In a special interview with the UEFA website, Koeman said: “My big lesson from this game is that if Barça does not play as a team, it will not win. “The physical condition of the team was not good, and Bayern was not only more physical but also organized.” On his return to Barcelona: “It’s a great feeling, I’m Dutch but the truth is that being more Dutch-Spanish and even Dutch-Catalan, I had a great time here as a player and now as a coach.”

Captain Leo Messi will want to close gaps from Cristiano Ronaldo at the top of the factory ever-scoring table. The Argentine currently has 115 goals compared to the Portuguese’s 130. This season Messi scored a lone goal in a penalty shootout in four games and last year found the net only three times in the prestigious factory.

Koeman said about Messi: “I have been working with him for several weeks. One cannot miss his qualities as a player and also his commitment to the team. He is the best on the field because he does everything easily. It is one thing to see the solution and another thing to carry it out in this way. We have him in the team and he is an asset, there are other talented players as well, but they have to run a lot because then Messi could be the best player in the world. “

The Dutchman, it will be recalled, scored the winning goal in the 1992 European Cup final against Sampdoria and awarded Barcelona the first trophy. Koeman recalled: “It was a wonderful feeling because of the whole meaning of the victory. If you score the winning goal then you are the hero of the night. The goal with a free kick was not planned, we kicked a lot of players in pre-game training. Johan Cruyff? He told us ‘enjoy the game’. If we enjoyed the game then we played our good football and then our chances of winning the final were higher ”.

At the professional level, Barça will come into the game with a missing squad without the injured Mark Andre Ter Stegen, and Jordi Alba and Samuel Omititi will also be absent. Ansu Patti and Filippa Coutinho, who opened on the bench on Saturday, are expected to replace Federy and Osman Dembele while Antoine Griezmann, who has yet to score or cook this season, is receiving harsh criticism from the media.

The Marca even wrote an opinion column with the unflattering nickname: “Griezmann is the heir to Gareth Bale, he has become the object of jokes – he does not play golf, speaks Spanish much better, but at the level of football there seems to be no improvement. It will be easier for him to win the World Cup again than to change the crowd’s attitude towards him. Griezmann is the only culprit in what is happening to him. “

In another game at home: Dynamo Kiev – Juventus (19:55)

Juventus Excited for Andrea Pirlo’s debut on the lines in the Champions League and in the shadow of the unpleasant memories from the relegation against Lyon in the quarterfinals (after losing 1: 0 in France, the Italian champions won 1: 2 in return and flew due to away goals), a difficult opening game awaits them – against Dynamo Kiev outside.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who was diagnosed as positive for the corona virus, will be absent from the game, of course, and the one who made the most headlines this week is Paolo DiBalla, who did not play. 1: 1 against Crotone. According to Totosport, the striker was furious with coach Pirlo for not giving him even a few minutes off the bench. The Italian on the other hand claimed that Dybala trained for a total of ten minutes in the concluding training session. The Argentine now appears to be playing side by side alongside Albero Murata who scored on Saturday. “If Dybala starts in the squad, the situation will calm down,” it was written in Italy, mentioning that the striker has not yet extended his contract with the team.

The injured Arun Ramsey and Mackney will also be absent from the game while Alex Sandro is in great doubt. Wiszczyk Szczesny, who was eliminated on Saturday, will return to the position between the posts. The old lady has a good balance against the Ukrainians as they have won the last three games (out of four). In the home stage of the 2002/03 season, the Bianconeri scored a big 0: 5 at home (Gianluigi Buffon is the only remnant) and 1: 2 away.

The Ukrainians come into the game from first place in the domestic league due to a good goal difference from Verskala Poltava when they both have 14 points after six rounds. On the way to the home stage Dynamo Kiev made a beautiful way when they ousted Alkmaar and Ghent (double victory). Last year, the Ukrainians were eliminated in the home stage of the Europa League.