A confrontation that brings a lot between Bayern Munich and Barcelona (Getty)
To receive Bayern Monaco Squad Barcelona Today, Tuesday, in the second round of the Champions League group stage after the worst start in the league in the last 12 years. Bayern have only 12 points collected in 6 games.
Pole Lewandowski returns in the second round of the Champions League group stage at the Allianz Arena, where he spent most of his football career and won almost every title.
Barça are facing Bayern with an open appetite, especially by keeping a clean sheet in the first round of the Champions League, when Lewandowski scored three goals (hat-trick), to start early in the top scorer of the current edition of the tournament to threaten the throne of ‘exiled Cristiano Ronaldo to the Europa League with Manchester United.
Lewandowski presented his hat-trick, accompanied by Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé with double, the credentials from the first round, to confirm that their teams are among the candidates for the final in Istanbul.
The last time the Bavarians had such a bad start was in the 2010/11 season, when the Bundesliga title eventually went to Borussia Dortmund. “We have lost four points,” Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic admitted on television. Salihamidzic was referring to the points lost in the home draw against Borussia Monchengladbach and Stuttgart, ignoring the away draw against Union Berlin. There is a difference between the two draws: while Bayern were clearly dominant against Mönchengladbach and only lacked to score, they performed very badly against Stuttgart on Saturday (2-2).
Bayern player Thomas Muller exploded with anger after the team drew for a third straight game, saying it was the first time he felt significantly “dissatisfied” this season. After the game, he said, “I am very angry for the first time this season. We are angry with ourselves. If you go on and you can get back to the top, you have to give it all in the last ten minutes.” “Allowing Stuttgart to reach our region again was a lack of intensity, a lack of desire. This is the first time this season that I feel I have given something to the opponent.”
The Allianz Arena will host the most anticipated match of the second round, but Al-Ayoun will not be far from Anfield, where he will play Liverpool A difficult and delicate match against Ajax Amsterdam after the humiliating defeat at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium.
Bayern and Barca clash in a match that could soon decide the first place in the third group, given that they are the two strongest teams in the group, and are far superior to Inter, and certainly Viktoria Plzen, the Czech Republic.
The match will be a tough test for Xavi Hernandez’s project in blaugrana, especially as the German giant is the first major team that Barca have faced from the beginning of the season until today. finding his way after the departure of Leva and his abundant goals.
No team will certainly be able to guarantee qualification from the second round, but no one wants to get away too soon from first and second classified at the same time, and this situation applies to Liverpool, who fell at Napoli with a humiliating blow result of 4-1, and not looks forward to rehabilitating his fans. There is no alternative ahead of Klopp and his players other than to defeat Ajax, who won a large first round win over Rangers, to become one of the candidates to qualify for the playoffs and further complicate matters in the first round.
Liverpool have not had a perfect start to the season, neither in the Premier League, where they are far from the top four, nor in Europe after the defeat against Napoli, who visit Ibrox Park, the stronghold of the Glasgow Rangers, where they hope to return in Italy with three points more, to bring a qualified position closer to the final price.
Atlético Madrid are trying to keep the memory of their victories after the difficult victory over Porto at Wanda Metropolitto, and are facing an uncertain game against Bayer Leverkusen, who suddenly fell in the first round against Club Brugge.
The Belgian representative will visit Porto today, at the latter’s Dragao stadium, and if he manages to win, he will have come a long way towards the qualifying ticket. In Lisbon, Tottenham and their host Sporting will battle for the top of Group D after the English victory over Marseille and Portugal’s victory over Eintracht in Frankfurt, so much so that Spurs and Sporting are looking very soon towards the final price.
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