Team News As Clubs Prepare For The First Leg Of The Champions League Round Of 16

 

• The Champions League round of 16 first leg is almost upon us.
• 8 teams will do battle this week for a place in the Quarter Finals.
• The aforementioned teams will take on each other as follows;

The 8 teams are Barcelona, Paris Saint German, Liverpool, Juventus, Sevilla, FC Porto, Borrusia Dortmind and RasenBallsport Leipzig.

Barcelona vs Paris Saint Germain

RasenBallsport Leipzig vs Liverpool

Fc Porto vs Juventus and

Sevilla vs Borrusia Dortmund

As gathered by EKO HOT BLOG and  preparations continues, check out the team news of some big clubs

Barcelona

The Catalan season has been anything but straightforward, but they appear to have hit peak form just at the right time following a run of seven straight league wins.

Jordi alba is likely to return to the left back, but injury to Gerard Pique means Frenkie de jong is expected to continue at central defense.

Aside that, there are no other major injuries meaning Koeman has a healthy squad to select from.

Paris Saint Germain

The French champions have since changed managers with Thomas Tuchel making way for Mauricio Pochettino.

The 2020 Champions League runners up will be without star forward Neymar who is sidelined with a thigh injury as well as Angel Di Maria.

It’s a big blow for the Ligue one side.

Liverpool

The six times European champions have won just five of their 15 games across all competitions since their final group game, losing six times including each of their last three outings.

Liverpool could be without as many as 10 first team players for this match as their never ending injury troubles continue to deepen.

Van Dijk, Joel Matip,Joe Gomez and Diogo Jota all remain sidelined.

James Milner picked up a knock over the weekend, Divock Origi,Ben Davies ,Naby Kieta, Caoimhn Kelleher are also doubts while Fabinho will be assessed after missing the Leicester City game with a small muscle issue.

 Juventus

The Italian champions topped Group G ahead of Barcelona and their reward is a trip to Porto in this round of 16 first leg tie.

Juventus scored 14 goals over the course of their six group stage matches and the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Alvaro Morata will need to show the same sort of free scoring form against a side who have racked up five consecutive Champions League clean sheets.

The Old Lady could be without the services of Arthur, Cuadrado, Dybala and Ramsey as all four players are currently nursing injuries.

The matches will be played on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively by 21:00 O’clock.

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