Barcelona Ready to Steal Points at Club Brugge's Home, Here's the Prediction!
–Barcelona will aim to secure nine points from four matches in the Champions League this season. They are striving to continue their league phase victories with a match against Belgian representative Club Brugge on Thursday (11/6).
This Catalan giant has collected six points from the first three matches. They are in ninth position in the standings and have a good chance to rise to the top of the table.
Therefore, Hansi Flick's team is striving to snatch all the points at the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has already taken its toll. The dark horse team defeated AS Monaco 4–1 in the opening match of the prestigious European competition.
Although they won comfortably in the first match, Club Brugge was unable to maintain their best performance after being defeated at home by Atalanta and Bayern Munich with convincing scores.
Here, Nicky Hayen and his team will return to play at home. But they have to face a strong opponent like Barca, who is also one of the favorites to challenge for the Big Ears trophy every season.
However, this time the unbeaten home team will make it difficult for Barcelona, who have just found their revival. HoweverBlaugranaIt could end Club Brugge's impressive home record.
This intense match will be broadcast live onVideoOn Thursday (11/6) early in the morning, at 03.00 WIB. Here is the full preview and prediction.
Club Brugge
ForcesBlue-BlackIt will still lose four important players due to injuries that have not healed, with Bjorn Meijer, Simon Mignolet, Ludovit Reis, and Raphael Onyedika unable to be deployed by the coach, Hayen.
The second goalkeeper Nordin Jackers will remain between the posts, while Christos Tzolis will be the support in the final third of the field, who has already scored eight goals and eight assists in 21 appearances in all competitions this season.
Tzolis has become a key player for Club Brugge this season, while Nicolo Tresoldi will take the forward position, having scored six goals and three assists this season to trouble the duo of Pau Cubarsi and Eric Garcia.
Predict startingline-up Blauw-Zwart(4-5-1): Nordin Jackers (goalkeeper); Kyriani Sabbe, Joel Ordonez, Brandon Mechele, Joaquin Seys (defender); Carlos Forbs, Lynnt Audoor, Aleksandar Stankovic, Hans Vanaken, Christos Tzolis (midfielder); Nicolo Tresoldi (striker)
Barcelona
At the same time, Robert Lewandowski and Dani Olmo both returned from injury in the match against Elche last weekend, and both will rejoin the squad, although they will have to play from the bench.
Meanwhile, Joan Garcia is not yet ready to return, although he has participated in training with the team.BlaugranaLast week. Therefore, Flick still has Szczesny as the main goalkeeper.
Andreas Christensen completed a light training session, but the Danish international player will return to absence, with Barcelona needing to be cautious regarding his recovery from a long-standing thigh problem.
The initial thigh problem of Lamine Yamal is still being treated, the 18-year-old player is expected to remain in the starting team, but Gavi, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Raphinha and Pedri are still patients in the treatment room.
Pau Cubarsi, who was not played during the match against Elche, is now ready to return in good condition, partnering with Eric Garcia to form a strong central defensive duo for the first clean sheet of the month.
Predict startingline-up Blaugrana(4-2-3-1): Wojciech Szczesny (goalkeeper); Jules Kounde, Pau Cubarsi, Eric Garcia, Alenjandro Balde (defender); Marc Casado, Frenkie De Jong (midfielder); Lamine Yamal, Fermin Lopez, Marcus Rashford (attacking midfielder); Ferran Torres (striker).
Head-to-Head Club Brugge vs Barcelona
2002/2003 Champions League (19/9) Barcelona 3–2 Club Brugge
UEFA Champions League 2002/2003 (30/10) Club Brugge 0–1 Barcelona
Last Five Matches of Club Brugge
Belgian Pro League (18/10) OH Lauven 0–1 Club Brugge
UEFA Champions League (10/23) Bayern 4–0 Club Brugge
Belgian Pro League (10/26) Royal Antwerp 0–1 Club Brugge
Belgian Cup (10/30) Club Brugge 6–1 Aalst Lede
Belgian Pro League (2/11) Club Brugge 2–1 Dender
Last Five Matches of Barcelona
La Liga (5/10) Sevilla 4–1 Barcelona
La Liga (18/10) Barcelona 2–1 Girona
UEFA Champions League (21/10) Barcelona 6–1 Olympiakos
La Liga (10/26) Real Madrid 2–1 Barcelona
La Liga (3/11) Barcelona 3–1 Elche
Field Officials of Club Brugge vs Barcelona
Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)
Assistant Referee: Gary Beswick – Adam Nunn (England)
Fourth Referee: Christopher Kavanagh (England)
VAR: Stuart Attwell (English)
VAR Assistant: Andrew Dallas (Scotland)
UEFA Referee Observer: Ante Vucemilovic (Croatia)
UEFA Delegation: Peter Oskam (Netherlands)
Score PredictionClub Brugge 1–2 Barcelona
Host,Blue-BlackIn the previous match, they successfully defeated AS Monaco with a decisive score in their only home game in this season's Champions League, so Jay Breydel Stadium will be a difficult place for Barcelona.
However, the reigning La Liga champion has enough quality in their youth team to navigate the way to three important points to continue the positive trend, even though they had previously lost to the reigning champion PSG at the beginning of October.
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