Barcelona are the bankruptcies to eliminate the Champions League title of this season, and for a good reason for their quarter-final first stage against Borussia Dortmund.
In the last eight they rode with a 4-1 aggregated victory over Benfica and became the third team in the history of the competition to reach 20+ quarterfinals.
Barcelona has also scored the most goals of each team in Europe's top five competitions (141), but confronted with a reviving Dortmund -side led by Niko Kovac.
Since his appointment, KOVAC has won six of his 12 games that are responsible for all competitions, creating the hope of the team to finish in the top four of Bundesliga again.
The two parties have already met in this year's competition, where Barcelona ends a 3-2 victory in the competition phase, but who will be at the top this time?
Here we look at the most important facts and statistics prior to Wednesday's collision in the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Company.
What is expected?
Barcelona are the overwhelming favorites to take a lead on the first leg to the Westfalen Stadium, and comes at the top in 65.7% of our preceding simulations for the match data.
A draw has a chance of 18.2% to happen, while Dortmund gets a chance of 16.1% to get into the second stage with an aggregated competition.
Of the sides that remain in the competition, Barcelona get the highest chance to reach the semi -final with 78%.
The LaLiga leaders have a 23% chance of going all the way and to lift a sixth Champions League title, and their first since 2014-15.
Dortmund now gets a 22% chance to reach the last four, the lowest of the eight teams, with Aston Villa something for them (29%).
The two teams have already met in the competition, where Barcelona won 3-2 in the Westfalenstadion in December thanks to the second half of Ferran Torres.
The Spaniard was only the fourth replacement to score two or more goals in a Champions League match match for Barcelona (after Messi in 2008 against Shakhtar Donetsk, Cristian Tello in 2012 versus Bayer Leverkusen and Ivan Rakitic versus Batisov).
The Flick team has also inflicted Dortmund's first home retrag in the competition in the competition since November 2021 (1-3 versus Ajax), which ended their longest series of matches without defeat in the Champions League.
Flutter to keep the perfect plate
Barcelona is unbeaten in their five meetings with Borussia Dortmund in the European competition (W3 D2). Only against Lyon (eight), Napoli (six) and Werder Bremen (six) did they play more in Europe without losing.
Although Barcelona has a favorable record against Wednesday opponents, Flick also recently enjoyed Dortmund.
About his spells with Bayern Munich and the current club Barcelona, Flick has won all six of his meetings with, for example.
It is his best 100% record against an opponent during this period. His parties have an average of three goals per match against them (a total of 18) and achieved at least three goals in five of the six games.
Indeed, from managers with more than 10 games responsible for a team in the Champions League, Flick's Barcelona have the highest goals per game average in the history of the competition (3.2 – 32 goals in 10 games).
The only other side of average 3+ goals per match under a specific manager was Bayern Munich, under Flick (3.17 – 57 goals in 18).
In 28 games in the Champions League with Bayern Munich and Barcelona, Flick saw his teams 89 goals, an average of 3.2 goals per match, which is the best of every manager in the history of the competition to take the lead in at least one match.
But their impressive impressions in the competition this season have been helped by their attack -lined attack. Barcelona has scored 32 Champions League goals this campaign, their most since 2011-12 (35). The only other time they have scored more than at their 32 this period was in 1999-00 (45, a competition record).
Dortmund with the aim of getting Knock -out Klap
Dortmund has been transferred to the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the ninth time and has achieved for the first time in successive seasons for the first time since 2012-13 and 2013-14.
But they are confronted with a strict test against one of the best teams in Europe, with parties from that part of the world that usually gets better.
Bvb has indeed only won three of their 20 -matches against Spanish opponents in European competition (D5 L12).
They only won one of 10 of such competitions in the knockout phases (D2 L7), which came into a 3-2 victory against Sevilla in the last 16 of the Champions League in 2021.
Although Dortmund has won none of their five games against Barcelona (D2 L3), they have only gone six consecutive European games without beating an opponent against two other parties. One is another Spanish team in Real Madrid (six) and then Rangers (seven).
However, they have only lost one of their last eight games in the knockout phases of the Champions League (W5 D2), with the only defeat against Los Blancos in the final of last season in Wembley.
They each won of their last three road races in the knockout phase of this competition, more than they had combined such competitions in their previous 17 (D4 L11).
Players to watch
Barcelona – Raphinha
Raphinha was directly involved in 16 goals in 10 performances in the Champions League this season (11 goals, five assists) and is the top scorer of the competition.
Only Lionel Messi in 2011-12 achieved more in a single edition for Barcelona (19-14 goals, five assists).
Dortmund – Jamie Gittens
Gittens has delivered four goals for Dortmund this season in the Champions League. It is most of every player under the age of 21 in 2024-25.
Indeed, the only player who is more for the club in a single edition of the competition, when 21 or younger is Erling Haaland (10 goals in 2020-21).
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