Barcelona were not in the best shape for the start of the Champions League group stage, but even so there was a minimum of doubt that the blue garnet would be able to make it to the playoffs. However, already in the first round the scale of the crisis that reigned in the team at that time became obvious. At the Camp Nou Barca were beaten with a score of 0:3 by Bayern Munich and the Bavarians had not yet realized some of their chances. In the second round the team, at that time still led by Ronald Koeman, probably intended to rehabilitate for this defeat in Lisbon, but again suffered a fiasco, losing 0:3 to Benfica. However, two matches with Dynamo Kiev, in which Barcelona took all six points, beating the Kievans in each match with a score of 1:0, allowed it to be on the second line in the tables. But the gap from Benfica is only two points. Last week, he led Xavi’s team and led them to win in the first match. In the Catalan derby, Barcelona beat Espanyol 1:0.
This season the vice-champion of England is not happy with the results at all. After 12 rounds in the Premier League, Manchester United have won only five wins and two draws, which brought 17 points and eighth in the standings. Such results cannot please fans, because last year the red devils fought for the first place. In the last five matches of the Premier League, the Mankunians defeated Tottenham (3:0) on the road, while they simply lost in four matches, losing to Watford last Saturday (1:4), which was the last straw for the management of the team, which sent to resignation of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. It is impossible not to note the worst performance of guests in the defense line, which conceded 21 times. In four rounds of the current UEFA Champions League group stage, Manchester United have scored two wins and a draw, which corresponds to seven points and first place in the standings. After defeating today’s opponent, Manchester scored four points with Atalanta (3:2 and 2:2). Today Cavani, Shaw, Varane, Greenwood and Pogba, who has a thigh injury, will not be able to enter the field.
