The management of Messi occupies to the Barça

Koeman and Messi, during the last duel against Alavés.CESAR MANSO / AFP

The coronavirus plans as a threat to the Barcelona-Dinamo Kiev dispute (21.00, Movistar Champions League).

The match, for now, is announced and confirmed once the 13 available players of the Ukrainian champion, the minimum required for the match to take place, tested negative in the PCR tests they were subjected to yesterday in Barcelona.

There was a risk of contagion after up to nine footballers tested positive and stayed last Monday in Kiev.

The expedition was reduced to 13 professionals and six players from the quarry because to the absences caused by the pandemic we must add the casualties due to injury that will condition the starting team as long as there is no more positive record, which would cause the suspension of the match from the Camp Nou.

Barcelona does not trust, in any case, the limitations of Dinamo after Shakthar Donetsk already beat Madrid in similar conditions due to the effects of covid-19.

The Catalans need to play, win and, if possible, score after their trigger on Saturday in Mendizorroza (1-1).

The Champions is, at the moment, a spa to heal their wounds in LaLiga.

The European drama has been repeated lately from the quarter-finals after some flawless qualifying phases, in line with the current one, in which Barça beat Ferencvaros (5-1) and beat Juve in Turin (0-2).

A win on matchday three would put him one step closer to the eighth before visiting Kiev and Budapest.

Koeman is obsessed with his team being effective and, therefore, he is supposed to insist with the block of players he has lined up so far and will not give out any of those who warm up the bench or have not even been called up, as was the last day in the case of Riqui Puig.

It could even give more strength to the line-up with the presence of the starting goalkeeper, Ter Stegen, already recovered from the injury and decisive in the exit of the ball, one of the facets that Barcelona needs to improve.

Barcelona's gaze is, however, on the opposite area and focuses especially on Messi and his drought: three goals, all three from penalties, in eight complete games, a figure that refers to the times when the 10th appeared by the Camp Nou.

The role of the Argentine focuses the informative debate from Setién's statements to EL PAÍS: "Messi is not easy to manage."

An opinion that Koeman does not exactly share: "I don't agree, although I respect Setién."

The coach applauds the involvement of 10 every day and there are serious doubts about the game in which he will grant him a break, either in LaLiga or the Champions League.

Today's rival evokes the best and worst memories at the Camp Nou: the

, then with Koeman, completed a dream match on September 29, 1993: 4-1.

The result, however, was the opposite on November 5, 1997: 0-4.

With the two first-team goalkeepers absent, Dinamo will play today with the 18-year-old Nescheret.

Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian coach who triumphed at Shakthar Donetsk and later went over to his rival Dinamo Kiev, will find it difficult to complete an eleven because he is missing several starters, up to eight according to his accounts: “As a coach, I would have preferred that the match was suspended, "he said.

"For us it was better to play later," he added, and then answered "sincerely no" when asked if Barça were favorites to win the Champions League.

"He needs time," he finished before praising Messi.

"Is incredible;

he's doing things in the field that others should do.

You want to help young people and young people need results;

without results they can remain as talents ”.

Messi is still on everyone's lips, even in games apparently without much crumb, like tonight against Dinamo Kiev.