UEFA Champions League: Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich Preview, Odds, Prediction

Barcelona‘s fans are terrified before Wednesday’s game against Bayern Munich in Germany. Blaugrana experienced one of the worst humiliations in its history two years ago, and the prospects of seeing yet another such outcome here are pretty high. Bayern’s players, especially Robert Lewandowski, have a huge motive to massacre the Spanish team, as the Pole lost the Ballon d’Or award to Lionel Messi at the recent ridiculous ceremony held in Paris. We’ve seen the difference between these two teams in the first leg, and judging by that event, Barca won’t have a good time in Munich.

Preview

Bayern Munich (-166) won the Klassiker on Saturday night in Dortmund, 2-3, in one of the best games this year. The Bavarians and the Millionaires put up a show which wasn’t seen in a long time, with such a high intensity of play that the fans didn’t have time to take a break from the action.

This was the third win in a row for the German champions, who are again looking confident on the field, even though there are certain glitches on the offensive part, but that is mostly when Leroy Sane has the ball.

Bayern’s no.10 is nowhere near the expected level of play, and for the moment, he only creates problems for Lewandowski, Coman, and the rest of the guys up front. On the other side, Lewandowski scored once in Dortmund, keeping himself heated up.

Barcelona (+320) lost at home to Betis on Saturday. After that performance, the fans are even more worried about what might happen in Munich because Blaugrana played badly.

Xavi’s start as the head coach didn’t bring any changes, but at least the youngsters from the youth academy are playing in the lineup, and the former captain is trying to set the foundations for the future.

Since the start of the year, Barcelona has had only two wins on the road, and in four of eight events, they couldn’t score.

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Kimmich has COVID-19, while Hernandez, Sabitzer, Stanisic, Sarr and Cuisance are all injured.

Aguero is out for the guests, and he probably won’t play for a long time. Ansu Fati, Gavi, Bratiwaite, Pedri and Sergo Roberto won’t play in Munich.

Head to Head

The Bavarians displayed a far higher level of play at Camp Nou, easily routing the hosts with 0-3. Everything was decided already in the first 45 minutes, and Blaugrana had luck because guests slowed down in the late stage of the match, probably not wanting to inflict some tougher loss to the big rival.

By the way, in the past five head-to-head events, Bayern won four times and Barcelona only once.

Prediction

We are backing up Bayern to win here with the odds on that happening at -125, which is fantastic. You need to use it before the bookies change their minds and drop the numbers. Apart from that, we really do believe that the hosts are going to be focused on scoring as many goals as possible, which is why our other suggestion would be to bet on Bayern to win with a -1.5 handicap. The odds on that are +190.

Pick: Bayern Wins

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