Estrella Roja - Barcelona: Winning in Belgrade to get into the Champions League 'TOP 8'

Published:6/11/2024 - 11:22h

Updated:6/11/2024 - 19:58h

Barcelona travel to Belgrade with high morale after beating Real Madrid and Bayern and with the aim of beating Red Star to get into the top 8 of the Champions League

FC Barcelona play Estrella Roja on Wednesday, starting at 9 p.m., in the fourth round of the 2024-25 Champions League. Hansi Flick's men will be looking to take the three points from Belgrade to get into the top eight of the standings.

Both teams come into the match at completely opposite times. While the Serbian champions have lost all three games they have played, 1-2 at home to Benfica, 4-0 at Inter and 5-1 in Monaco, Barça responded to their defeat on the first day in Monaco (2-1), with home wins against Young Boys (5-0) and Bayern Munich (4-1).

Barcelona have everything in their favour in Belgrade

Estrella Roja have a big challenge ahead of them if they want to pick up their first points. Barcelona are on a spectacular run of form and arrive in Belgrade with their morale sky-high after their 4-1 win over Bayern in the Champions League and 3-1 wins over Espanyol and 4-0 wins over Real Madrid in La Liga.

In addition, the precedents in previous clashes between the two teams are also clearly in favour of the Catalan team, which won three and drew one out of four games.

Hansi Flick will have all the players in the squad at his disposal, except for Araújo, Marc Bernal, Christensen, Éric García, Ter Stegen and Ferran Torres, who are out due to injury. Red Star, on the other hand, have Ivanić, Mimović, Olayinka and Radonjić out due to injury, and Duarte and Glazer are in doubt, with discomfort.