Final teams to be updated after final lineups are out.

Match details:

Champions League
Barcelona vs Dynamo Kyiv
Venue: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain
November 05, 2020
01:30 am IST

Preview:

Barcelona and Dynamo Kyiv will face each other in the Champions League at Camp Nou, Barcelona in the Round 3 match. Barcelona are at 12th place this season with eight points, a poor start of the campaign. They were the best-attacking team in the league scoring massive 86 goals in 38 matches last season. They have played six games so far in the league and won two matches by 4-0 and 3-0 over Villarreal and Celta Vigo respectively. In their most recent match, they drew by a 1-1 scoreline over Alaves in the league. They won both matches in the Champions League and are favourites to win this match.

Dynamo Kyiv are currently in very good form and they won their six matches out of the eight in the league. They are doing great both at the front and back at the moment, having scored 17 goals and allowed just four in the eight league matches. They are at the top with 20 points. They drew their last Champions League match against Ferencvarosi.

Recent form:

Barcelona – LWLWD
Dynamo Kyiv – WLWDW

Injuries and suspension:

Barcelona: Philippe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti.
Dynamo Kyiv: Mykyta Burda, Volodymyr Kostevych, Serhiy Sydorchuk, Mykola Shaparenko, Denys Boyko, Vitalii Mykolenko, Georgi Bushchan, Tudor Baluta, Heorhiy Giorgi Tsitaishvili, Oleksandr Karavaev, Denys Harmash, Mikkel Duelund.

Probable starting XI:

Barcelona

Stegen, Alba, Lenglet, Pique, Dest, Jong, Pjanic, Pedri, Messi, Dembele, Griezmann.

Dynamo Kyiv

Neshcheret, Kedziora, Popov, Zabarnyi, Tymchyk, Pena, Shepelev, Andriyevskyi, Tsygankov, Buyalskiy, Supryaha.

Top picks:

Lionel Messi: The 33-year-old, Barcelona star is the most vital player to the club. He is not only scoring goals but also assisting others to put the ball in the net. In La Liga 2019-20 table, he owned both top ranks in goals and assists. He scored an unprecedented 35% of Barcelona’s goals in La Liga. He scored 25 goals and provided 21 assists in 33 appearances in La Liga 19/20. In the Champions League, he has scored two goals in two matches this season.

Antoine Griezmann: In his current club Barcelona, during this season he started six matches and scored one goal so far in the league. Last season his average was 0.3 goals per game, he scored nine goals in 35 league matches.

Captain and vice-captain options:

Lionel Messi
Antoine Griezmann
V Tsygankov
O Dembele

Dream11 team:

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