Barcelona-Bayern Munich: schedule, TV and formations of the Champions League quarter-final match

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LISBOA.- Barcelona, with Lionel Messi as captain, will face Bayern Munich, winner of the last eight Bundesligas and owner of an undefeated in 27 matches, in search of a place in the semifinals of the Champions League that develops its final stage in Lisbon, Portugal. The only quarter-final match will be played this Friday from 4:00 p.m. (Argentine time) at the Estadio do Sport Lisboa, in Benfica, behind closed doors for the public to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus, and will be transmitted by the signal ESPN 2.

The winner of the cross between Catalans and Germans will make sure a place in the semifinal next Wednesday, August 19, Against the winner of the quarter-final match that Manchester City, from England, and Olympique Lyon, from France will cheer on Saturday. Led by Lionel Messi, the second all-time top scorer in the competition with 115 goals, Barcelona will try to get back into the top four in Europe amid a frustrating season for having lost the La Liga title to his classic rival, Real Madrid. The crack is not going through his best season, but at the age of 33 his numbers are still impressive: 31 goals (three in the Champions League) in 43 games.

Opposite will be the Polish Robert Lewandowski, author of 53 goals in 44 games for Bayern Munich, who confirmed his hegemony in German football after winning his eighth Bundesliga in a row and was the protagonist of four of the last six semifinals of the top European tournament at the level of clubs. After their last “Champions” title in 2012/13, the German team played the semi-finals in 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2017/18, while in 2016/17 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals and in the last edition said goodbye in eighths.

Barcelona, ​​meanwhile, stumbled in the semifinal of last edition with Liverpool, the last champion, in an incredible series that began with a 3-0 win and lost 4-3 in England. Before, the Blaugrana team, which won its last “orejona” in 2014/15, had stayed three seasons in a row in the quarterfinals.

The team led by Quique Setién, who took office with guaranteed qualification to the round of 16, overcame the group stage with 14 points as leader of a difficult area that he shared with Borussia Dortmund and Inter under the leadership of Ernesto Valverde. Before the break due to the coronavirus pandemic, Barcelona drew 1-1 with Napoli in Italy and last Saturday ended the series with a 3-1 victory at a desolate Camp Nou.

Bayern Munich’s performance of Hans-Dieter Flick It is notably more regular as it has not lost an official match since December 7 of last year when it fell, as a visitor, against Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 and among all competitions it has accumulated 27 undefeated matches and 18 consecutive victories. In between, in addition to the Bundesliga, he won the German Cup. The Bavarians won all their group stage matches (the first three under the leadership of Croatian Niko Kovac) and in the round of 16 they swept Chelsea with a 7-1 aggregate: 3-0 in London and 4-1 in Munich , last Saturday.