Barça plays the future against Dinamo
BARCELONA, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
FC Barcelona receives Dinamo Kiev at the Camp Nou on Wednesday (6:45 p.m.) in a third day of the Champions League group stage that is presented as an anticipated and unexpected final in which the Blaugranas, still without scoring , they risk their future in the competition.
Win or win, there is no other option for a Barça whose coach, Ronald Koeman, is the first to pull the bandwagon of the opinion that, without victory, the ‘Champions’ is painted black and not Blaugrana. Barça, against the team that should be ‘Cinderella’ and that has one more point, plays it with two cards and, at the Camp Nou, the key is played.
Not a draw is worth to continue dreaming without utopia appearing on the horizon. Winning will make Barça, who have just won Valencia and host Real Madrid this weekend, be third and leave the tail of the group and can think, with more optimism, about continuing to come back in Kiev.
At the Camp Nou, again with permission to fill their stands, Barça knows that they will have to deal with the pressure of knowing themselves against the ropes. A goal against will make that pot rise, that runrún, and Dinamo already knows what it is to score in the Blaugrana fiefdom; He did it last year despite the defeat (2-1).
His great star was marked, the Ukrainian international Viktor Tsygankov, a right winger with magic who, like much of the bloc from the previous campaign, is still in Kiev under the command of Mircea Lucescu, a veteran who has seen them in all colors in Barcelona in his past with Shakhtar and now with Dinamo.
For Koeman, this Dinamo is better than the previous one. It is an evolution. But the one who is growing, it seems, and should do so even faster and faster is a Barça that is recovering pieces, like a Kun Agüero who played the last minutes of the 3-1 victory against Valencia. In the absence of Pedri and Dembélé, and with Ansu Fati, Barça wants to level up.
Undoubtedly, the triumphant return of Ansu Fati with the ’10’ on his back continues to give hope to a culer who finds it difficult to return to the Blaugrana faith. As an example, do not fill the Camp Nou despite the fact that the capacity can already be completed. But, with Ansu Fati and the desire to recover lost ground, Barça knows that winning at Dinamo would help this reconciliation.
Despite the fact that neither Dembélé nor Pedri, who are still discharged like Martin Braithwaite and Ronald Araujo, and with the sanctioned Eric Garcia, have not yet been discharged, Barça has, in Koeman’s words, arguments to fight to compete in this’ Champions ‘and redirect the initial defeats against Bayern Munich (0-3) and Benfica (3-0).
Beyond looking for the necessary victory and releasing the points locker, Barça is also looking for the first goal. With Ansu Fati, with a Memphis Depay who started the season well and in Europe wants to be seen, and with Agüero’s goal-hunting experience, this ‘but’ must be crossed off the list against a Ukrainian champion who wants to fish in Barcelona.
DATASHEET.
–POSSIBLE ALIGNMENTS.
FC BARCELONA: Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Piqué, Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Busquets, De Jong, Gavi; Dest, Memphis Depay and Ansu Fati.
DINAMO KIEV: Bushchan; Kedziora, Zabarnyi, Syrota, Mykolenko; Sydorchuk, Shaparenko; Tsygankov, Buyalskiy, De Pena; y Vitinho.
–ARBITRO: Clément Turpin (FRA).
–STADIO: Camp Nou.
–TIME: 18.45 / Movistar Champions League.