Barcelona, who have won just 5 of their last 17 home games in Europe, get young boys who have been forced to hit the ground running after losing in Monaco
BARCELONA — Lamine Yamal and Raphinha they come out as holders in the Barcelona league for the meeting of second day of the Champions League contra Young Boys.
he Barcelona get this tuesday Young Boys in the Round 2 of the Champions League in Montjuïc, and the need to regain the ground lost after achieving the first victory in Monaco and the hope that he will be the protagonists of tournaments that were cursed many years ago.
Hansi Flick warned in advance that he intended not to reserve parts and go out with everything, forgetting about tests and rotations, despite the theoretical weakness of the Young Boyswho have only won one of the eight games played in the Swiss Super League and go into the duel with the 0-3 that Aston Villa gave them on the opening day of the Champions.
REPEATES AND ATTENDANCES
At Barça, Flick recovers Frenkie de Jong, five months after his ankle injury at the Bernabéu, but he will not be able to rely on the suspended Eric García, who was sent off in Monaco, and he is still without the injured Fermín López, Gavi, Dani Olmo, Ronald Araújo, Andreas Christensen, Marc Bernal and Marc-André ter Stegen.
For his part, the injured Saidy Janko, Loris Benito, Facinet Conte and Patric Pfeiffer are not available for him, Patrick Rahmen, whose permanent director of Young Boys is under discussion.
RECORD
This is the sixth visit that the Swiss club will make to Spain, where they won only one game and lost the other four in the continental competition. Their first match was in the opening round of the old European Cup, in 1986, and Real Madrid’s Quinta del Buitre beat them 5-0, with a double from Butragueño and a goal from Hugo Sánchez (the Aztec’s first in the game. competition).
Young Boys did not return to Spain until 2009, winning 0-1 in San Mamés against Athletic Club in the Europa League preliminary round, and from then on they added three more wins: 1-0 against Getafe in 2010, in the League Europa and 3-1 and 2-0 against Valencia (2018) and Villarreal (2021) in the group stage of the Champions League.
For Barça it will be the fifth home game against the Swiss team in continental competitions. The first one was in 1959 against a team from Basel in the old Fairs Cup which was resolved with a clear 5-2. In 1967, in the same competition, they beat Zurich 1-0 and Lugano 3-0 in 1968 in the European Cup Winners’ Cup which was also deficient. Basel was the last competitor from Switzerland to visit Basel, in the group stage of the 2008-09 season and they started with a draw (1-1) that this time would not be as dramatic.
PUSHING STATISTICS
And it is understood that Hansi Flick approaches the game against Young Boys with great care and concern considering not only their current ranking in the competition after a poor start, but, even more, Barça’s record in Europe.
And Barça’s team has barely managed to win five of their last 17 European competition games at home, with a disastrous record of five wins, six draws and six losses. In fact, since the pandemic (which crowned Barça’s worst historical result in Europe when it was crushed by Hansi Flick’s Bayern Munich in Lisbon 8-2) of the 2019-20 season, the number of Barça clubs on the continent shows an average never seen before.
Since the 2020-21 season, Barcelona have played 39 games in European competition and won just 17 of them (43.6 percent), drawing 10 and losing the remaining 12.
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FC BARCELONA: Iñaki Peña, Jules Koundé, Pau Cubarsí, Iñigo Martinez, Alejandro Balde, Marc Casado, Pedri, Raphinha, Ferran Torres, Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski.
BSC Young Boys: Van Ballmoos, Athekame, Zoukrou, Camara, Hadjam, Niasse, Lauper, Colley, Ugrinic, Monteiro and Ganvoula.
Arbitrator: Eric Lambrechts (Belgium)
STADIUM: Montjuïc
AM: 15:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT / 13:00 PM MX