The Barça receives this Thursday in the Palau (20:45, Esport3 and DAZN) to the Belarusian Meshkov Brest, and the doors of the Final Four in the return of the quarterfinals of the Champions, the stands of its pavilion are reopened, closed and closed throughout the season. In the first leg the Spanish champion already won (29-33), but in the Barça team they hope that the players will not be distracted by this income “because it is not final”, commented Xavi Pascual, Barcelona’s coach, who is on the verge of qualifying his team for its tenth Final Four.
Pascual is clear that the Belarusian team he will not be a comfortable rival “as he already showed in the first leg. He never leaves the game. Therefore, nobody expects that this game is going to be a walk, and that it is assumed that there will be moments when Barça will have a bad time” .
The last time Barça lost a Champions League match at the Palau was in 2015 against Kiel. Since then the Pascual team has played 43 home games, with 42 wins and one draw. This, the 44th, will be the European farewell to the coach at home. It could also be the last European match with the Belarusians of Raúl Alonso, who returns to Germany with his family, and who will be replaced by Dani Gordo, Nava’s coach in the previous two years.
Barça’s Spanish international. the goalkeeper Gonzalo Pérez, insisted that the squad wants to be in Cologne (June 12 and 13) “because it is the objective, to win this Champions”. Few teams have come back from visitors in Europe, although the Belarusian team has recovered a player so Alonso will have more replacements than in the first leg.
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