Our prediction for this Champions League match:
Crvena Zvezda
Match Time & Date:
06/11/2024
02:00 PM
Prediction: 1-4
Barcelona
David faces Goliath at Stadion Rajko Mitic as Crvena Zvezda and Barcelona lock horns in the Champions League round 4. The Serbian champions are on a three-game wining run in all competitions, but they have been struggling in the new Champions League campaign, losing to all Benfica, Inter, and Monaco. As Nemanja Radonjic has joined Mirko Ivanic, Omri Glazer, Ognjen Mimovic, and Peter Olayinka in the recovery room, we are not tempted to bet on the underdogs.
Barca, on the other hand, look unstoppable at the moment, with the team eyeing their seventh consecutive win in all competitions. As previously mentioned, David faces Goliath in Belgrade and anything but a routine away win would be a big surprise. Frenkie de Jong is widely expected to return to the starting XI after coming as a substitute in a 3-1 win over Barcelona local rivals Espanyol. The likes of Ferran Torres, Martin ter Stegen, Eric Garcia, Andreas Christensen, and Ronald Araujo are injured for the Catalan outfit.
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 (Crvena Zvezda):
Crvena Zvezda are the most famous club in Balkans. The Crveno-beli have 19 Yugoslav First League titles and have won eight domestic trophies since the breakup of Yugoslavia. Crvena Zvezda won their last league title in the 2015/2016 season, with the team finishing the campaign no less than 28 points clear of Partizan.
Speaking of Partizan, the Crno-beli are considered Crvena Zvezda’s bitterest rivals and the two teams meet in the “Eternal derby” (Veciti derbi). The capital club did well to win the European Cup title in 1991, with the team beating Olympique Marseile on penalties in the title game. That is considered the club’s biggest success, but it has to be noted that the Serbian club won the International Cup later in 1991. Crvena Zvezda outclassed Colo Colo of Chile (3-0) at National Stadium in Tokyo.
The likes of Dejan Savicevic, Vladimir Jugovic, Dragan Stojkovic, Dragoslav Sekularac, Rajko Mitic, Dusan Savic, Nemanja Vidic and Dejan Stankovic are some of the famous footballers who played for Crvena Zvezda in the past.
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