Previous meetings, form guides, links and trivia ahead of the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-off first leg.

Ronaldo has netted for Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus, with Messi on target for Barcelona ... top of the 2020/21 rankings with ten goals, two more than second-ranked Kylian Mbappé ...

Laia Cervello Herrero analyses the talking points as Barcelona kept the pressure on the Madrid teams with a strong win against Sevilla ...

Barcelona have described the 21-year-old as “an agile, fast striker with an eye for goal – although his main ... If he has a good second half of the season with Barca Atletic, he could have ...

The big news came from Spain's Liga F where, after a season and a half, Barcelona finally lost ... tricky game against Strasbourg as a second-half own goal was enough for the visitors to seal ...

Robert Lewandowski is La Liga's top scorer this season with 18 goals Barcelona moved four points ... three points behind second-placed Atletico Madrid. Leaders Real suffered a shock 1-0 defeat ...

While Benfica’s second goal ... in Barcelona’s clash with Benfica. The more shocking revelation was that the player in question was Benfica left-back Alvaro Carreras. The 21-year-old was ...

Barcelona have kept their unbeaten run going in the Champions League, somehow. They played out an epic against Benfica at the Estadio da Luz, with the match finishing in a 5-4 win for Hansi Flick ...

Barcelona took control from that point, but Benfica went back ahead after a howler from Wojciech Szczesny, who gifted Pavlidis the chance to score his second goal, which he took. The Greek striker ...

Monaco, but have won every game since, scoring a staggering 21 goals in six games. Barcelona currently sit second in the league phase and a positive result would see them clinch a spot in the ...

Barcelona’s Raphinha scores their fifth goal [Rodrigo Antunes/Reuters] Benfica opened the scoring in the second minute, when Pavlidis escaped Pau Cubarsi and fired home from Alvaro Carreras’s ...

They sit 15th with 10 points, so the situation could go either way. As for Barcelona, they sit second in the table and a win in Portugal would almost certainly secure their place in the round of ...