March Day LIVE,
Champions League Quarter Finals – First Leg
April 9 2025 .
Time -8 pm (UK).
Barcelona vs Borrrusia Dortmund
Venue -Estadi Olympic LIius Companys

Heavy weight and champions league favourites Barcelona ,welcomes last years finalist Borrrusia Dortmund for the first leg of the quarter finals at the Estadi Olympic LIius Companys in Spain for the crucial match tonight .

After a hard fought victory over Real Betis last weekend ,to increase their lead in the La Liga, Barcelona returns to action against Borrrusia Dortmund in the first leg Quarter finals at the Estadi Olympic stadium in Spain .
Barcelona will like to make it an easy win and avoid as much pitfalls as possible as well as an inferno in the second leg that will be decided in the Yellow Shirts stadium in Dortmund , Germany .
With an eye against Inter or Bayern in the semi finals , for both sides , will do everything possible to surmount any likely opposition on the night in Spain

Barcelona looks forward to a sweet revenge against Inter in 2010 when they were booted out by the later for the finals , while Dortmund would like to get a slice of a pound of flesh from Bayern after having suffered many defeats in the hands of their German counter parts over the years .

The task in the hands of Dortmund looks huge and scary , considering Barcelona s almost 90% performance this season with 22 games winning 18 but weee held to a 1-1 draw by Real Betis , Nathan canceling out Gavi s early goal .
Barca likely to get a quadruple ofteophies this season , having earlier won the Spanish Super Cup as well as being in the finals of the Copa Del Rey when the edged out Athletico on 5-4 penalties .

A good result at home for Barcelona is possible but anyone thinking it’s going to be a walk over or business as usual for Barcelona , may based on his negativity of looking at the present stand at the Bundesliga will be making a costly mistake , but after seating down and watching Dortmund after the International break will notice a change in tactical formation as well as pukka play , which will likely create problems for Barcelona if they are complacent in this match . With sweet victories over Freiburg and Mainz , Kovac transformed the team after two weeks of inactivity as well as changing their pattern of play from their traditional 5-3-2 that stacks in a 3-4-1-2 formation , that have put them in proper position to eliminate Barca if luck is on their side tonight .

With a 100% success against the Yellow and Black boys from Germany Flicks have , six wins from six across all competitions plus his time with Bayern against Dortmund too..
Even more devastating for Borrrusia is their only 3 wins out of 20 in their previous visits to Spain. That’s a bad record and statistics too and Barcelona are likely to exploit the already bad position of Dortmund against Spanish teams , with also their current loss to Real Madrid 5-3 at the Bernabau , though they were leading 0-2 , before Real rubbished their effort and leveled up and won. Though Barcelona will not take Dortmund lightly or for granted in Euro football ,knowing their pedigree already at this stage and in Europe as well.
Dortmund have only been knocked out once in the last eight and that was in the final of last year s champions league against Real Madrid after winning three matches in a row pirir to the finals last year .
After their back to back wins against Freiburg and Mainz , last week , their hopes in the Bundesliga still looks good for now , but slip ,makes it impossible for a come back in the last four , with just few days or weeks to wrap it up in the Bundesliga, their best bet right now is to win today and possibly the champions league trophy for a place in next year s hostilities .

Predictions ,

Likely to be a straight win for Barcelona , considering their top form in Europe this season , and also extend their superiority over Dortmund in Europe ,before the likely inferno in the reverse fixture in Germany, which is not likely to Favour them, considering the Yellow and Black lads pedigree at home in devouring teams with ease in their fortress.

Though , Borrrusia Dortmund have scored in 11 away matches in the champions league previous campaigns , but that may not be enough to get rid a a surberb Barcelona scoring machine .that easily scores against any opposition .

Barcelona 2-1 Borrrusia Dortmund Or 2-2 .

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