Barcelona are looking for their game and a new leader, whose position is still vacant after Messi’s move to Paris. In the Champions League, the Catalans started unsuccessfully and only in the last round managed to record their first victory over Dynamo Kyiv (1:0). This success left the Spanish grandee a chance for overall success in the group and entry into the spring part of the main club tournament in Europe. In the Spanish championship, Barca repeats last year’s path, when after the start, the Blue Garnet finished the game to a place in the second half of the standings, but eventually moved up to the top three. For ten rounds of the current championship, Sergi Barhuana’s wards won four wins and three draws, which brought 15 points and ninth place in the standings. After the success in the game with Valencia (3:1) the Catalans suffered two fiascoes in a row from Real Madrid (1:2) and Rayo Vallecano (0:1). Today Araujo, Braithwaite, Vahe, Dembele, Alba and Pedri, who has a knee injury, will not be able to enter the field.
After the first round of the Champions League, Manchester United came out on top in the group. The Mancunians started with an unexpected defeat to Young Boys, followed by revenge against Villarreal for their defeat in the Europa League final. In this game “Manchester United” lost, but first equalized the score, after which Cristiano Ronaldo brought an important victory to his new team with an accurate blow. In the last round, United defeated Atalanta (3:2), which brought good chances to enter the spring part of the main club tournament in Europe. For nine rounds in the current Premier League tournament, Olle Gunnar Solskjaer’s wards managed to get four victories and two peaceful outcomes, which corresponds to 14 points and the seventh position. After defeating West Ham on September 19th, the guests gained only one point in the Premier League in the game against Everton (1:1). The attack line looks good, which was different 16 times. Sessegnon and Gil, who has a thigh injury, will not be able to play today.
