Barcelona Women vs Paris Women - prediction, team news, lineups

Barcelona Women volition footwear disconnected the defence of their Women's Champions League crown erstwhile they instrumentality connected Paris Women astatine the Estadi Johan Cruyff connected Wednesday.

The Blaugrana volition presumption a 5th European rubric arsenic their main objective, portion Paris FC's main nonsubjective volition beryllium to scope the league signifier for a 2nd consecutive season. 

Match preview

Barcelona find themselves successful a acquainted presumption arsenic the reigning European champions aft winning their 3rd UWCL trophy successful 4 seasons successful May's last successful Norway.

While they whitethorn person thrashed OL Lyonnes 4-0 for their 4th UWCL crown, the lucifer besides marked the extremity of an era, arsenic Alexia Putellas and Mapi Leon made their last European outing for the Blaugrana.

The brace person since started a caller escapade with London City Lionesses, portion Ona Batlle and Salma Paralluelo joined Arsenal and OL Lyonnes respectively.

Those notable departures person not stopped Pere Romeu's broadside from starting their home play with 4 consecutive victories successful Liga F by a combined 19-2 scoreline.

Their toughest trial of the play truthful acold came successful a 4-2 triumph against Atletico Madrid connected matchday three, earlier they made overmuch easier enactment of it successful Friday's resounding 6-0 triumph against Deportivo Alaves, leaving them 2 points wide of Real Madrid astatine the apical of the table.

Barcelona volition expect to proceed their winning tally connected Wednesday, particularly arsenic they person won each of their past 10 location matches successful the UWCL, scoring astatine slightest 3 goals successful each of those victories. 

Paris FC are acceptable to marque their 3rd main gully quality successful 4 seasons aft securing nonstop introduction to the league signifier via their second-place decorativeness successful the Premiere Ligue past term. 

After finishing successful 2nd spot successful the regular season, Paris FC squeezed past their metropolis rivals Paris Saint-Germain successful the semi-finals of the playoffs earlier they fell to a dense 5-0 decision against perennial champions OL Lyonnes successful the final.

They experienced different pugnacious outing against the reigning French champions connected matchday 2 of the caller season, conceding 5 second-half goals successful a 7-1 distant loss.

Sandrine Soubeyrand's charges showed large quality to bounce backmost with a 2-0 triumph successful Friday's distant gathering with Strasbourg, making it 2 wins from their archetypal 3 games of the home season.

Paris volition look Barcelona and Arsenal successful their archetypal 2 UWCL matches earlier they instrumentality to league enactment astatine the commencement of adjacent month, knowing that immoderate points volition beryllium a bonus against specified pugnacious absorption earlier their last 4 league signifier games against Hacken, Real Madrid, Koge and Servette.

Wednesday's fixture represents Paris' archetypal European distant crippled against Barcelona, though they did look the Blaugrana connected location turf successful past season's league phase, falling to a 2-0 decision successful what was a spirited show from the Parisiens. 

Barcelona Women signifier (all competitions):

W W W W 

Paris Women signifier (all competitions):

W L W

Team News

Barcelona are expected to beryllium without the antiaircraft duo of Irene Paredes and Renee van Asten, who person missed the past 2 matches with musculus injuries.

As a result, the Blaugrana could enactment up with Martin Fernandez and Marta Torrejon, though determination is an enactment for Guijarro to driblet into the backline arsenic was the lawsuit successful the triumph against Atletico earlier this month.

Esmee Brugts, Kika Nazareth and Claudia Pina are each acceptable to instrumentality to the starting lineup aft dropping down to the seat astatine the weekend.

As for the visitors, they stay without midfielder Daphne Corboz, who is continuing to enactment her mode backmost from a semipermanent genu injury.

Hillary Diaz could instrumentality to the backline aft dropping down to the seat for the caller league triumph implicit Strasbourg.

There whitethorn besides beryllium a spot for Oceane Picard if Soubeyrand wants to adhd an other subordinate successful the mediate of the parkland successful an effort to disrupt Barcelona’s midfield trio.

Barcelona Women imaginable starting lineup:

Coll; Schertenleib, Fernandez, Torrejon, Brugts; Lopez, Guijarro, Nazareth; Graham, Pina, Pajor

Paris Women imaginable starting lineup:

Chavas; N’Dongala, Diaz, Hocine, Baquerizo; Toloba, Le Moguedec, Picard, Korosec, Mateo; Viens

We say: Barcelona Women 4-1 Paris Women

Paris's 7-1 triumph to Lyon earlier this period suggests that Wednesday's clash against the European champions could beryllium to beryllium a agelong night.

While Barcelona whitethorn not scope seven, we inactive deliberation they volition enactment successful a free-scoring show to easiness to maximum points connected matchday 1 of the league phase.

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