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Match Preview: Barcelona vs Manchester City - UEFA Champions League - Round of 16 - Second Leg - Wednesday, 18/03/2015
Match schedules:
Date : wednesday, 18 March, 2015
Kick off Time : 19:45 (GMT)
Where: Camp Nou, Barcelona
Team: Barcelona vs Manchester City
Competition: UEFA Champions League 2015
Telecast & Broadcast channels:
you can watch this match on TV Telecast channels given below:
SuperSport 3, Sky Calcio, Sky Sport 1 Italian,
NTV Plus Football, 3+ Denmark, RTÉ Two, SuperSport 3 ZA, Digi Sport (Hungary),
beIN SPORTS 1 HD, beIN SPORTS 11 HD, beIN SPORTS 13 HD, beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR, beIN SPORTS 1 FR, C + LCampeones, Sky Sport 3 Germany
Meanwhile,Barcelona progressed from last year’s tie by beating Manchester City in both legs, 2-1 at home and 2-0 away. This season, Barcelona won group F, winning their three home games in the progress, beating PSG 3-1, Apoel 1-0 and Ajax 3-1.
Team news
Sergio Busquets is out and will be Barcelona’s biggest loss for the second leg. Thomas Vermaelen is out injured but Luis Enrique has had to deal with that all season.Manchester City will be without defender Gael Clichy, who was sent off in the first leg between the two sides.
Just minutes after City pulled a goal back to make the score 2-1 at the Etihad, Clichy picked up a second yellow card for a high tackle on Barcelona's Dani Alves.
MANAGER QUOTES
Luis Enrique: "What is clear is that we are not taking anything for granted. We will be facing one of the favourites for the competition, for the title. We are still only halfway through the tie and have to play the return yet and looking at their players we can see they have the potential to make life difficult for us. They got back into the tie in the first leg despite our great start to the game. We are not taking anything for granted."Manuel Pellegrini on future: "Roberto [Mancini] left the club for other reasons, not because he didn't win anything one year. It's not 'if you don't win, you're out'. Of course, winning trophies here is extremely important. I understand you can't just say, 'It doesn't matter, we'll come in fourth or fifth because we've got a long-term project'. But in the last four years this team has won two leagues, come second once, and won the FA Cup and the Capital One Cup. I have never felt the situation is that if I don't win I am out whatever happens."
Possible lineups
Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba; Xavi, Rakitić, Iniesta; Suárez, Messi, Neymar.Manchester City: Hart; Zabaleta, Kompany, Demichelis, Kolarov; Fernando, Fernandinho; Milner, Touré, Silva; Agüero.
Head to Head:(Last Meetings)
Manchester City vs FC Barcelona1 - 225/02/2015 UEFA Champions LeagueFC Barcelona vs Manchester City2 - 113/03/2014 UEFA Champions League
Manchester City vs FC Barcelona0 - 219/02/2014 UEFA Champions League
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