11/04/2020 14:00
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/04/2020 4:50 AM
Lionel Messi's Barcelona faces Dinamo Kiev
this Wednesday, November 4, in the football match corresponding to
Date 3 of Group G of the UEFA Champions League
, at the Camp Nou stadium in Catalunya
The culé team will receive a diminished Ukrainian team with the intention of maintaining the ideal score and directing a classification to the second round that is supposed to be simple.
But, the news of the pandemic and the nine infected in the first team of Dinamo Kiev, put a cloak of intrigue.
The Ukrainians hope that Tuesday's tests, in the run-up to the crash, will not force them to go home without playing.
Lionel Messi's Barcelona wants to maintain the ideal score in Group G of the Champions League.
Photo: AP.
At the moment, Dynamo Kiev has nine cases of coronavirus among the players of its first team.
This, added to other casualties such as that of Captain Serhiy Sydorchuk, which leaves Mircea Lucescu's men in a square;
with only 13 players from the first team.
Just one more positive from the last minute could truncate plans.
If the game continues, as it should be, Barça knows that it should not be trusted.
Ronald Koeman warned in the preview that Real Madrid fell to Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo compatriots, who also arrived with many casualties.
Also, the award is nice;
brushing past the playoffs.
Koeman recovers Piqué, who, when suspended, could not play against Juventus in Turin (0-2), but lost Ronald Araujo through injury, so he still only had two pure centrals.
Spanish defender Gerard Piqué could make his comeback in Barcelona.
Photo: AFP.
It is worse, yes, Lucescu at Dinamo: of the nine positives, two are the usual goalkeepers and two are defenders, with four casualties in total on the defensive line.
The positive question for Barça could be the return to the team of goalkeeper Marc-André Ter Stegen, who has been training with the team for a few days and is awaiting medical discharge.
They will not arrive, sure, neither Umtiti nor Coutinho.
At Dinamo, to begin with, the goal will be defended by the youth of the subsidiary Ruslan Neshcheret, who already made his debut in the domestic competition, and will make his debut in the 'Champions'.
Dinamo Kiev has nine cases of coronavirus among its first team players.
Photo: EFE.
The defense, greatly diminished, will give way to a midfield and a forward that will have more well-known and common pieces in the 'eleven' of the Romanian coach.
Dynamo Kiev is not just anybody in Barcelona.
One of the historic players of the Ukrainian country has played six times against the Blaugranas and has been able to win three of those direct pulses, even storming the Camp Nou.
It was in 1997, in the group stage, when Andriy Shevchenko's Dynamo, who scored a hat-trick, stormed the Blaugrana fiefdom (0-4).
But there is also glory.
In 1993, in the first round of the European Cup, Ronald Koeman's Barça and Pep Guardiola shone to win 4-1 and overcome the adverse 3-1 of the first leg.
It was, they say, one of the best matches for Johan Cruyff's 'Dream Team'.
Among the 9 coronavirus positives, Dinamo Kiev has two goalkeepers and two starting defenders.
Photo: AFP.
Possible alignments
The 11 of Barcelona
: Ter-Stegen;
Dest, Piqué, Lenglet, Alba;
Pjanic, De Jong;
Griezmann, Messi, Dembélé;
and Fati.
DT: Ronald Koeman.
Dinamo Kiev 11
: Neshcheret;
Kedziora, Zabarnyi, Popov, Syrota;
Shepeliev, Andriyevskiy;
Tsygankov, Buyalskiy, De Pena;
and Supryaha.
DT: Mircea Lucescu.
Referee
: Michael Oliver.
Stadium
: Camp Nou.
Hours
: 17:00 (Argentine time).
TV
: ESPN 2.