Monaco – Barcelona. Forecast and announcement for the Champions League match

On September 19, “Louis II” will host a match of the 1st round of the Champions League, in which “Monaco” will meet with “Barcelona”. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.

Monaco

The team even managed to challenge PSG again, overtaking the eternal winner. But it was not possible to repeat such a success, moreover, there were quite mediocre results. As a result, a year ago Rybolovlev made a bet on Hütter – and the experienced Austrian lived up to expectations, making the Monegasque team the country’s vice-champion. But now he has a new challenge: to replace the sold leaders led by Fofan, who was given to Milan for 20 million. However, they did not skimp on newcomers: Ileniken, Kamara, Mavissa and Teze together cost 50 million – after all, they also wanted Ceballos from Faye. After starting with a couple of wins, the ambitious club then stumbled at home to Lance, finishing only 1:1. Instead, Auxerre was defeated 3:0.

Barcelona

Last season, the club only added in the Champions League, and that, after finally exiting the group, foolishly conceded to PSG, winning in France and opening the score at home. Everything else frankly did not work out, so the final parting with Xavi was not surprising – although the way it was arranged did not add sympathy to Laporta, and in general to the blue-garnet. As well as the summer transfer operations of squeezing out the captain, Sergi Roberto, and Gundogan, who arrived only in 2023. But here at least it is explained by finances: and so Olmo managed to register with a squeak. But most importantly, Flick appeared as a coach. Hansi ruined his reputation by failing with the German national team. But in Catalonia, he immediately broke away from all the pursuers led by Real. Valladolid was completely swept off the field, finishing 7:0. And Girona was beaten big at the weekend, 4:1.

Statistics of personal meetings

In the 1993-1994 Champions Cup draw, Barcelona was stronger both times. But in the summer, they held a friendly match and in it the Monegasques defeated their status opponent 3:0.

Forecast

Bookmakers are waiting for a new victory for the Catalans. But the French are also not bad – we recommend using a neutral option with a total of more than 3.0 goals (coefficient – 1.75).