Our prediction for this Champions League match:
Barcelona
Match Time & Date:
29/01/2025
21:00
Prediction: 2-1
Atalanta
After crushing Valencia in La Liga round 21, Barcelona will look to give fans yet another reason to celebrate when they take on Atalanta on Wednesday evening. Barca came from behind to beat Benfica in the Champions League round 7 and they are seen as favourites to defeat the Orobici as well. Robert Lewandowski returns to the starting XI, while all Dani Olmo, Marc Bernal, and Inigo Bernal should miss out with injuries. Influential midfielder Pedri is a major doubt.
The Serie A outfit, on the other hand, aim to cement their spot in top eight, but given Barcelona’s 100% home record in the elite competition, we are not tempted to place our bets on the underdogs. Defender Isak Hien is back from suspension, while both Gianluca Scamacca and Odilon Kossounou are out of contention with injuries. It has to be noted that the two clubs meet for the first time in the Champions League.
Highlighted Player (Robert Lewandowski):
After scoring 36 goals in 59 league games for Znicz Pruskow, Robert Lewandowski joined Lech Poznan in June, 2008. The 184-cm-tall attacker scored 18 goals in 28 appearances for the club in the 2009/2010 Ekstraklasa campaign and during the season he was on Borussia Dortmund’s radar.
The Polish forward signed a four-year deal with the Bundesliga side in June, 2010 and he quickly established himself as the team’s key attacker. Lewandowski was producing excellent performances with the Millionaires between 2010 and 2014 and it has to be noted that he won two Bundesliga trophies with the club (2010/2011, 2011/2012). He participated in the 2012/2013 Champions League final with Borussia Dortmund, but the Millionaires were beaten by fellow Bundesliga side Bayern Munich in the title game.
However, he betrayed Borussia Dortmund fans in 2014 as he signed a four-year deal with the Bundesliga giants. Lewandowski impressed in the 2016/2017 Bundesliga campaign as he scored 30 goals in 32 league games for Pep Guardiola’s troops. The Polish footballer represented his homeland at Euro 2016 in France and he scored one goal at the showpiece tournament in France.
Highlighted Team (Atalanta):
Atalanta Bergamasco Calcio, better known as Atalanta Bergamo is an Italian football club from Bergamo which was founded in 1907 and is currently active in the Serie A.
The club host it’s home games in the Atleti Azzuri d’Italia stadium which holds a capacity of 27 000 sats. The club colors of Atalanta Bergamo are blue and black. Atalanta Bergamo holds the nickname Nerazzuri which is the same as Inter Milan.
Biggest succes of Atalanta Bergamo was in 1963 where the club managed to win the national cup (Coppa Italia). Atalanta won the Serie B three times (in 1959, 1984, 2006 and 2011). In Europe the club from Bergamo managed to stunt and reached the semi finals of the Europe Cup 2.
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