Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund Prediction, Betting Tips & Lineups: Raphinha to score anytime
It's UEFA Champions League quarter-finals time, with four first-leg games across two nights this midweek and Borussia Dortmund are the visitors to the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys' for a clash with hosts Barcelona. They kick-off at 20:00 on Wednesday, April 9th and television coverage in the UK is via TNT Sports 2 and Discovery+.
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund Prediction
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund Betting Tips
Borussia Dortmund have been involved in some high-scoring encounters in the Champions League this season and another may be on the cards in Catalunya as they face Barcelona.
The Bundesliga side was beaten 3-2 at home by Barca during the group stage, while their most recent trip to Spain resulted in a 5-2 loss at Real Madrid in October.
Dortmund have played six games on the road in the Champions League this season, scoring an impressive 14 goals and hitting at least two in all but one of those games.
Barca has been unbeaten in 22 games since the turn of the year and is rightly the favourite to win this contest, but they don't make great appeal at odds of 1/3.
Like their visitors, they are proving to be excellent entertainers, scoring 17 goals in five Champions League home games so far this season. However, they only managed two clean sheets in that run.
When these sides met in December, they traded five goals in 32 second-half minutes after a goalless opening half.
This has all the makings of a high-scoring contest and over 3.5 goals in the choice, a punt that has landed in four of Barcelona's five home assignments in this competition, a 3-0 win over Brest in November the exception.
Two of the three marksmen already into double figures in the Champions League this season are set to square off, with Raphinha the leading scorer with 11 goals already, one more than Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy.
Barca's Brazilian ace is enjoying his best-ever season in front of goal, with 27 strikes already in all competitions. They included the opening goal when the teams met at the Westfalenstadion in December.
He already has a remarkable 16-goal contribution in the Champions League and is expected to get on the scoresheet once more.
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund Lineups & Team News
Barcelona Team News
- Hansi Flick will have Pau Cubarsi back from suspension, but the hosts are without Marc Casado, Marc Bernal and Dani Olmo, and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who has various injury concerns.
- Gavi was back in the starting XI in the weekend draw with Real Betis and found the net, so the talented 20-year-old will hope to keep his place.
- Fermin Lopez and Ferran Torres are also contenders for starts, while Raphinha is freshened up after playing just over 30 minutes at the weekend.
Borussia Dortmund Team News
- Dortmund are without Pascal Gross (suspended) and Marcel Sabitzer (knee), while Niklas Sule is a doubt after missing the 4-1 weekend win over Freiburg.
- Ramy Bensebaini is also expected to miss out, ensuring Daniel Svensson is in line to start at left-back in Spain.
Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund Lineups
The lineups for Barcelona vs Borussia Dortmund will be displayed below approximately one hour before kick-off.
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Alejandro Balde Martínez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Íñigo Martínez Berridi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Pau Cubarsí Paredes | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Jules Olivier Koundé | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Pedro González López | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Frenkie de Jong | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Raphael Dias Belloli | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Fermín López Martín | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Robert Lewandowski | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Ronald Federico Araújo da Silva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Andreas Bødtker Christensen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Anssumane Fati Vieira | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Héctor Fort García | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Eric García Martret | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Diego Kochen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Gerard Martín Langreo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Ignacio Peña Sotorres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Pablo Martín Páez Gavira | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Pablo Torre Carral | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Ferran Torres García | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Pau Victor Delgado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| # | Starting XI | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gregor Kobel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Amir Selmane Ramy Bensebaïni | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Waldemar Riptsov Anton | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Emre Can | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Julian Ryerson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Karim-David Adeyemi | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Carney Chibueze Chukwuemeka | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Felix Kalu Nmecha | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Julian Brandt | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | Jamie Jermaine Bynoe-Gittens | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Serhou Yadaly Guirassy | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| # | Substitutes | Fouls | Goals | Shots | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Maximilian Beier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Yan Bueno Couto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Julien Duranville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 42 | Almugera Raouf Mohammed Kabar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | Marcel Laurenz Lotka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | Alexander Niklas Meyer-Schade | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Giovanni Alejandro Reyna | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | Daniel Jonathan Svensson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Niklas Süle | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 38 | Kjell-Arik Wätjen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Salih Özcan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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