Bayern vs Barcelona Semi-final Second Leg Match Preview 2015

The UEFA Champions League known as the Champions League and UCL. It is the world’s best club competition in European football. The UEFA Champions League begins in mid-July with three knockout qualifying rounds and a play-off round. The 32 teams are dividing into eight groups of four teams and play each other in a double round-robin format. UEFA Champions League winner qualify for the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. UEFA Champions League anthem is played before each UEFA Champions League game.

Less than a week ago superb game played by Barcelona at Camp Nou. FC Barcelona will be looking to eliminate Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich and book their place in the UEFA Champions League 2015 Final in Berlin. After a great 3-0 win over the German Champions in the first leg at the Camp Nou. In the first leg of UEFA Champions League semi-final, Barcelona star striker Lionel Messi gave them a great lead against German Champions and in injury time Neymar gave Barcelona third goal lead in the first leg of UEFA Semi- final. Bayern star players Robben and Ribery both are injured in the first leg, but Bayern try their best to defend their goal. Bayern Munich will have it all to do in the second leg of UEFA Champions Leauge in Munich which kicks off on Tuesday.

The possible lineups are following:

Bayern Munich:

Neuer (GK), Benatia, Boateng, Rafinha, Xabi Alonso, Lahm, Muller, Thiago Alcantara, Gotze, Lewandowski.

Coach: Pep Guardiola

Barcelona:

Ter Stegen (GK), Pique, Jordi Alba, Alves, Mascherano, Rakitic, Iniesta, Busquets, Neymar, Suarez, Lionel Messi.

Coach: Luis Enrique

Referee: M. Clattenburg

Assistants: S. Beck and J. Collin

Fourth official: S. Burt

The Barcelona takes lead 3-0 from the first leg of their Champions League semi-final and Bayern Munich needs a miracle to reach the final. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique decide to take his first team squad and three players from the Barcelona B squad, Munir, Sandro and Sergi Samper to Munich for the second leg of UEFA Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich star players Arjen Robben, David Alaba, Badstuber and Frank Ribery, they are injured. They all missed the first leg of semi-final in Camp Nou. Ribery has ankle problem and Arjen Robben have calf injury problem. Bayern Munich lost their four matches in last five games and Barcelona has won their last eight games.

Bayern Munich lost by Augsburg and Bayern Leverkusen in Bundesliga league and they lost by Borussia Dortmund in DFB Pokal cup. This is a disadvantage for Pep Guardiola side. Bayern Coach, Pep Guardiola said, “We are happy we are in semi-finals. We are 3-0 down and we are up against the best team of the last 15 years.” Bayern may have lost their last two games at home this season, but they are excellent at home. They lost their match against porto at Porto home, but they beat FC Porto at home and reach the semi-finals of the league. Guardiola said, “It’s not the same, but we will try.” Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique said, “Yes, we are the best counterattacking team, but we will need to keep our players calm”. Bayern beat Barcelona 4-0 in Munich at last–four stage two years ago. So Bayern players believe they can beat Barcelona at Allianz Arena with the 4-0 score line. Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has 55 goals in all competitions this season. Although the 3-0 victory in the first leg of UEFA Champions League semi-final, Barcelona have chances to reach the final of 2015/15. Bayern has chances to reach the final if they score an early goal in front of their home crowd.

PSG vs FCB – Football Quarter Final of UEFA

UEFA Champions League is world’s best football champion league. This league is simply known as the Champions League. UEFA stands for Union of European Football Associations. In 1992, UEFA Champions League replaced the European Champions Clubs’ Cup. This Champions League is annual club football competition, which is played between best European football clubs. 

The Champions League action is back again with the quarter-final round, starts from 15^th April. After a superb football action in the round of 16, the eight teams qualified and they are Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint Germain, Juventus, Porto, Bayern Munich and Monaco. Paris Saint. Germain and Barcelona met two times in this season and those both teams winning one game each. In the round of 8, PSG vs FCB met a third time in this season. Paris Saint. Germain two great players Zalatan Ibrahimovic and Marco Verrati out of this match. This match was played in Paris Saint. Germain home ground, Parc des Princes stadium in France.

The match starts after referee kick off whistle. In starting 8 minute PSG striker, Pastore misses the target and gave goal kick to Barcelona. PSG strikers start attacking Barcelona defenders. Barcelona star player Lionel Messi hit the post in 14^th minute of the match after a pass from Suarez. Not only Messi but Barcelona striker Neymar also misses the goal target in 16^th minute. But in 18^th minute Messi took a pass from Busquets and gave to Neymar, who scores his fourth goal in this season. After the great goal, Paris Saint Germain made their first player change of the match, because their Captain Thiago Silva was injured. Both teams gave their best efforts to score a goal. PSG striker Cavani have a chance to score, but Barcelona defender Mascherano saves the goal with the great sliding tackle on Cavani. Barcelona defender Pique booked for a foul on Matuidi, Pique got a yellow card for the bad foul. Paris Saint. Germain striker Cavani has chances to score but, most of time he was offside. In 42^nd minute Paris Saint. Germain Cabaye took a shot to score the first goal for PSG, but Ivan Rakitic blocks his shot. In 45^th minute, PSG got a corner kick and their striker Lavezzi took the corner but Barcelona defender clears the ball by a head. The referee blows a whistle for half-time and the score was Paris Saint. Germain 0-1 Barcelona. To get updated with the latest news of Football, be tuned to Sports News.

Second Half begins with the referee whistle, Barcelona kick off and start passing the ball into their back players. In 48^th minute PSG striker, Cavani was again flagged for offside. PSG players have an effort on goal, but they don’t score. In 53^rd minute of the match, Barcelona made their first change Xavi change with Iniesta. Xavi took the captain arm band. Messi tackled on Marquinhos and Messi was booked for the tackle. In 67^th minute, an excellent goal by Luis Suarez and he gave 2 goal leads to Barcelona. After 2nd goal in 74^th minute Barcelona made their 2^nd change, Mathieu replaces Rakitic. In 79^th minute once again Luis Suarez scores and gave 3-0 lead to Barcelona.  Just three minutes later PSG scores their first goal of the night, Van Der Wiel took a shot for goal and it deflected into the net by Barcelona Defender Jeremy Mathieu. After 90 minutes, referee has blown the final whistle of the match and the final score are Paris Saint. Germain 1-3 Barcelona. Luis Suarez Selected Man of the Match.