Neuer, on the Barça: "they will assume more responsibility because Leo Messi no longer is"

The FC Barcelona and the Bayern Munich will measure this Tuesday 14 September by the first duel for both in the present edition 2021/22 of the UEFA Champions League, by the phase of groups. The culés, now without his best historical player, the Argentinian Leo Messi, will receive to the germanos with the memory of the humillante elimination with marker of 2-8, in the quarter-finals of the 2019/20, in that party that played in the city of Lisbon (Portugal) after the stop by the pandemia of the COVID-19.

"It will be odd for all the rivals from now play against a Barça in which it no longer was Messi", confessed the put and captain of the Bayern Munich, Manuel Neuer, the one who went the attendant to give the face in the previous press conference to the duel in front of the directed by the Dutch trainer Ronald Koeman. But it ensured that "although it was not Messi, against the Barcelona never can be calm, have other very good players and a lot of quality in attack, by what expects us a very complicated party".

On the 2-8, said: "Parties like this do not forget never, but the Barcelona is today an entirely distinct team. The players that play will assume more responsibility because Lionel Messi no longer is. We have to see how they go out to the field. I think that they will work better tácticamente", analysed the goalkeeper, the one who will arrive with the aim to keep his arch in zero and leave all the responsibility to the powerful attack of the Bavarians, led by the Polish Robert Lewandowski.

It does not trust of the FC Barcelona

"So much we like the Barcelona have had changes in the staff and think that will be two very argued parties. "It would not say that I go to be calmer. They have good players in the offensive that maybe now are more impredecibles. When it plays against the Barcelona can not be calm, but permanently attentive and concentrated", added.

"The Barcelona never will be feeble. For all player of the Barcelona each party in the international plane is something special. Therefore have a lot of respect and expect to play against a good team", sustained the put the one who also highlighted that they have suffered changes, as for example, the arrival of the new trainer, Julian Nagelsmann.