Barcelona take on the visitors Juventus at “Camp Nou” in the second-leg match of the UEFA Champions League’ quarter-final. The game will be played on Wednesday, April 19th. The first-leg match ended with 3:0 scoreline in favour of Juventus.
Barcelona are not such formidable as two years ago. In two recent encounters in the LaLiga “Blaugrana” lost to Malaga with 0:2 scoreline and hardly managed to break 3:2 Real Sociedad. In the UEFA Champions League, the Catalans are under the threat of relegation just in ¼ after the horrible first-leg game in Turin. Moreover, they had to make the miracle in the second consecutive stage of the Eurocup after fantastic comeback against Paris SG. Even though “Blaugrana” demonstrate powerful performance in offense in front of their supporters by scoring in 21 out of 22 home clashes, they still suffer from inconsistent play in defense. At the home ground the Catalans conceded goals in 12 matches out of 23 conducted matches.
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Last week was obviously successful for Juventus as they followed 3: 0 triumph against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League by 2:0 win vs. Pescara in the Serie A. On weekend “La Vecchia Signora” used rotation in its head-to-head against the major outsider of the Serie A which enabled to give a rest to the most players of the main squad and save them from injures before the team’s visit to Spain. On the road Juventus scored in seven out of eight matches against solid opponents including all away games in this UEFA Champions League. Despite the fact that “La Vecchia Signora” has one of the best full backs’ link in the world it recorded only two clean sheets in eight away encounters.
In the first match Juventus got ideal result: they won without conceded goals. As a result, Barcelona will have to play in offence and, taking into consideration their problems in defense, “La Vecchia Signora” is sure to find opportunities for its beloved counter-attacks. It also should be noted that in the UEFA Champions League “Blaugrana” scored across 20 games in a row plus they scored at least two goals in 17 those matches. Thus I believe that the teams will combine a number of goals.
Prediction for the match: Both teams to score.
