The most anticipated game for today and perhaps for the whole first leg of the first elimination round between Arsenal and Barcelona.
Both teams happen to be in great shape and this match is promising to be a very interesting one.
Arsenal are second in the Premier League with 53 points in 26 games, only 4 points behind the current leader Manchester United. Arsenal has scored 18 goals in the group stage, as much as Tottenham, which means that both London teams are leading the scored goals statistics. Arsenal knows no defeat at home in all competitions since November 20th 2010, when they lost to Tottenham after leading on the half time with 2:0.
Barcelona are superb this year, taking the first spot in La Liga, beating Real Madrid, their old rival with 5:0 at home, losing only 1 games at the beginning of the season against Hercules. The team topped their group with 4 victories and 2 draw games. In the weekend games before Champions League, Barcelona almost lost their away game against Gijon, but luckily drew in the last 6 minutes.
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Arsenal and Barcelona met last year, after 20 minutes of domination on Emirates from Barcelona, and 2 goals in the net of Arsenal, the Spanish team started playing a bit defensively took the action in their half and were punished with the draw 2:2. However on Camp Nou Barcelona took theirs with 4:1 and advanced to the next round.
Despite everything that has been written, about Arsenal and that they can surprise us in this game and come out victorious, I think Barcelona are at least a class above them and will get theirs here. Taking into consideration that this is the first game the draw might be also a possible outcome.
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Barcelona to win @ 1.90 (Bet365)
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