Barcelona take on the visitors Celtic in the round 1 match of the Champions League group stage. The game will be played at Camp Nou on Tuesday, September 13th.
The Catalans sensationally lost their most recent match in domestic league to newly-promoted Alaves at own turf, 1-2. It was the first defeat of Barcelona this season. Luis Enrique decided to bench Messi, Iniesta and Luis Suarez for this match but things didn’t go according to the plan and all three had to step on the pitch. Sadly for the team, appearance of this star trio didn’t turn things around. So not we can expect to see motivated Barcelona, who would show Celtics all the strength after such disappointing result against Alaves.
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Celtic, in turn, show excellent results in domestic league, taking four wins in four matches. On top of that, they defeated their rivals Rangers on the weekend, who returned to elite division this year, 5-1. However, the level of Scottish Premier League can’t be compared with La Liga and we can judge Celtic by their results in Champions League qualifying rounds, where they recorded defeats to semi-pro side from Gibraltar, 0-1, and to Hapoel Beer-Sheva, 0-2.
Barcelona and Celtic face one another quite often and the Catalans have obvious advantage in the head-to-head record between the team. We should expect nothing but confident win with clean sheet over the hosts over mediocre Scottish side, who has problems in away matches even against humble teams.
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score – no.
