Slavia Prague – Barcelona. Forecast and announcement for the Champions League match

On January 21, the match of the 7th round of the main round of the UEFA Champions League will be held at Fortuna Arena, in which Slavia Prague will meet Barcelona. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Slavia Prague

The team finished several times behind their neighbor and arch-rival Sparta. But in 2024, she lost her coach, which she managed to take advantage of, regaining the championship title. And now Trpishovsky’s wards are quite confidently in the lead, having created a gap from their competitors by the middle of winter.

In the Champions League, the Czechs, in fact, turned out to be uncompetitive. They have never won, clearly alternating draws and defeats regardless of the venue of the matches. Moreover, after a 2:2 draw with Bude/Glimt in the opening round, the team did not score a single goal at all. Now, in the final home game, the club will surely want to try to slam the door and fight for their first victory. Or at least try to insert sticks into the wheels of one of the favorites.

Barcelona

After the unsuccessful 2023/2024 season, the club invited Flick to the position of head coach. In his first year of work in Spain, he won everything possible at the national level. And so far, everything is going to the point that this treble will be defended. The Super Cup has already been won – with victories in January over “Atletico” and “Real”, and it was possible to break away from the latter in the Premier League.

Not everything went smoothly in the Champions League. Rashford’s brace sealed a 2-1 win at Newcastle, before a mirror-image defeat at home to PSG. And after 6:1 with Olympiakos, they added only one point in matches with Brugge (3:3) and Chelsea (0:3). And only in December, returning to their home field, they managed to beat Eintracht, and even then minimally – 2:1. This is still not enough to talk about a guaranteed place in the playoffs.

Statistics of personal meetings

The clubs already met in 2019. And the Catalans, after the away victory, limited themselves to a draw at home.

Forecast

Bookmakers GGBET evaluate the chances of the teams with very decent coefficients: 9.35 for Slavia and 1.32 for Barcelona. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.

Bookmakers do not believe that the Czechs, even on their own field, will be able to take points from Yamal and company. We bet that the guests will win here with a handicap of -1.5 goals (coefficient – 1.92).