Soccer Europa League - Play-Offs 16 February 2023

Barcelona vs Manchester Utd - Match Preview

Both teams merits being in the Champions League was the way Barcelona supervisor Xavi responded at being matched with Manchester Joined in the UEFA Europa League (UEL) knockout end-of-the-season games. Barça dropped into the UEL from the Champions League (UCL) briefly back-to-back prepare in the wake of completing third in Gathering C behind Bayern Munich and Entomb Milan. The Catalan side has since put that failure behind them by sewing together a 16-game unbeaten cutthroat run (W15, D1) that landed them the Supercopa de España title and a noteworthy lead in La Liga after last end of the week.

Spotify Camp Nou is presumably the best spot for Barça to start this two-legged tie, having lost only two times against English clubs in UEFA cutthroat home games (W22, D11). Their backline could be the one driving the charge for one more sure outcome, after they yielded a pitiful eight objectives from 14 home matches this season, though with seven coming in Europe!

MU passed up garnish UEL Gathering E by goal distinction to Genuine Sociedad, and confusing issues is the suspension of cautious lynchpin Lisandro Martínez for this initial leg. That might have disabled Joined groups of the new past, yet chief Erik ten Witch has bored his side into a serious unit that is currently third in the Premier League and has lost recently once across 17 cutthroat matches (W14, D2) while overseeing eight clean sheets en route.

The Red Fiends are on a five-game dominating disagreement Europe and could post six such triumphs in succession interestingly starting around 1965/66! That ought to prod the guests who have been pained by Spanish groups before, having not just lost four straight UEFA H2Hs versus Barça, yet after likewise seeing their last five European missions end on account of Spanish clubs!

📋 Players to watch: Robert Lewandowski could turn into the third player to total 100 objectives in UEFA club competitions as he stands simply support away from the record. He has really gotten support in six of his last nine goal-scoring appearances in UEFA matches, yet Joined's Marcus Rashford could remove the spotlight. The meeting forward is in a super hot structure subsequent to contributing 17 objectives (G13, A4) in 15 matches since the World Cup.

⚡ Match Facts: Barcelona has won only two of their last 11 UEFA home games (D4, L5) yielding 3+ objectives on six events.