Messi meets Cristiano

Although it has the third best UEFA coefficient in Europe, surpassed only by Bayern and Real Madrid, Barcelona was not in

, where are the strongest rivals and theoretical aspiring to the final scepter.

However, he escaped from other opponents of the most uncomfortable and dangerous as the two Manchester teams (United and City), in addition to Chelsea and Dortmund, and to a lesser extent Ajax and Shakhtar.

And, as much as he did not aspire to have a bed of roses in this new edition of the Champions League, he can be content with the draw, kind to his interests, at least to reach the round of 16 without too much trouble.

Thus, on the way to the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul - where the final will be held on May 29, 2021 - Barça will face Juve de Pirlo, Dinamo Kiev and Hungarian Ferencvaros.

Juventus

They have no longer appeared in the

of the Champions League team in the last year and they have not been on the podium of the three best players in the world, which has not happened for a decade.

But Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are more than vintage footballers, unmatched in their own way.

After measuring and raising the bar in the League for years, they will now meet again in Europe.

Leader of Juve, the Portuguese rushes his football in Serie A and, competitive as he is, he intends to recover the golden scepter.

It will not be easy for him with Messi in front of him, even if the Argentine does not go through his best moments at the Barça club, which forced him to stay at the club after this summer, when he asked to leave with a burofax.

Andrea Pirlo's Juve - makes his debut on the bench and is currently expressing himself with 3-5-2 with lanes-, in any case, it is not just Ronaldo.

Although Szczesny (capable of the best and the worst) is in goal,

defensive reliability

is a reality, with centrals Bonucci, Chiellini and De Ligt, now injured.

In the core McKennie has earned a position as a midfielder alongside Rabiot, in addition to Ramsey, who is in charge of liaising with the wingers: Ronaldo and, recently, Morata.

A rocky team that already played against Barcelona four years ago.

It smells of football and Europe, it smells of the best possible match in a qualifying round.

They are Messi and Ronaldo, the kings of the ball.

Dynamo Kiev

Packed with international footballers for Ukraine, Dinamo is a happy team in their competition but usually poor in Europe - they have not set foot in Champions territory for three years - due to their lack of talent and checkbook compared to the big European teams.

He is also a fond memory rival for the

, as the 4-1 of the 1993-94 campaign (4-1) is considered the masterpiece of Cruyff's team.

With a taste for the offensive approach, the strikers share the goals as expressed in this course - champion of the Ukrainian super cup and is already the leader of their competition, with three draws and one win in the four duels they have played -, then four attackers add three goals per beard.

One is Carlos Pena, who played for Oviedo in the 2016-17 season without much success;

and the main reference is the tall Portuguese Gerson Rodríguez, in addition to the local idol Tsyhankov, who usually plays as a link or winger, always related to the goal because in 155 games he has 60 networks.

In their shadow is Fran Sol, trained in the Madrid quarry until he had to look for beans in other teams such as Lugo, Oviedo and Villarreal, also in the Netherlands (Willem II) and now Ukraine.

Ferencvaros

After 25 years, the Hungarian team returned to the top European competition after eliminating the Norwegian Molde with two draws but with the advantage of goals in the opposite field.

A vintage flavor because in 1965 he managed to win the Fairs Cup, precisely against Juventus, in addition to the Recopa de Europa, a decade later, against, precisely, Dynamo Kiev.

In the European Cup, in any case, it did not go beyond the quarterfinals.

Rebrov's team - which made a career as X in teams like Tottenham, West Ham, Fenerbahçe and Rubin, in addition to Kiev - is usually 4-2-3-1 like Koeman does with Barcelona.

Of certainly anonymous players at the international level, Dibusz stands out in the goal and Nguen and Boll in the rival area, who share the praise and the goals.

A rival, in any case, less for Barcelona, ​​the theoretical

of the group.