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Barcelona will visit Monaco's Stade Louis II at 2:00 AM on September 20th (Vietnam time), beginning their Champions League campaign in the new format for the 2024-2025 season. This is a significant challenge for coach Hansi Flick's team, especially for 17-year-old Lamine Yamal after a brilliant summer at EURO 2024 and an impressive start to the La Liga season, scoring 3 goals and providing 4 assists in 5 consecutive wins.

Lamine Yamal will help Barcelona soar in the Champions League.

Monaco is having a brilliant season in Ligue 1 (France), remaining unbeaten in 4 matches (3 wins, 1 draw), second only to PSG, who have won all 4 matches. Monaco, along with Marseille, are the two biggest contenders for the Ligue 1 title in the 2024-2025 season against PSG.

Monaco's rise presents an opportunity for Barcelona to demonstrate their resurgence in their quest to reclaim the glory they enjoyed during Messi's era. More than three seasons after Messi's departure (August 2021), the Catalan club has finally found stability under coach Hansi Flick. This is thanks to the maturation of many young players from the renowned La Masia academy, notably Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsi (both only 17 years old), as well as Gavi, Pedri, and Fermin Lopez, who are only 20 or 21. In addition, top stars like Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha, and newcomer Dani Olmo fit Hansi Flick's football philosophy, helping the Catalan team soar from the start of the 2024-2025 season.

Making a mark in the Champions League would be a major step forward for Barcelona. This would allow them to definitively resolve the financial issues that have hampered the club's progress for many years.

Since their last Champions League victory in 2015, Barcelona have only reached the quarter-finals once, last season, while being eliminated in the group stage twice, in 2021 and 2022. This is in stark contrast to their glorious years, when they reached the semi-finals in 10 out of 15 appearances between 1999 and 2015. During this period, Barcelona won four Champions League titles, matching Messi's record.

Messi's era with Barcelona ended more than three years ago, a period during which the team struggled in every aspect to rediscover itself. Now, they have Lamine Yamal, an almost perfect replica of Messi. The Catalan team therefore has the right to hope and place their faith in entering a period of reclaiming their glory, after years of watching their rival Real Madrid win the Champions League again and again (a total of five times since 2015).

Results of the matches played early morning of September 18th.

Title contenders Real Madrid started the season with a 3-1 victory over Stuttgart. Juventus also beat PSV by the same scoreline. Bayern Munich thrashed Dinamo Zagreb with a record-breaking 9-2 scoreline. Two English clubs, Liverpool (who beat AC Milan 3-1) and Aston Villa (who beat Young Boys 3-0), along with Sporting Lisbon (who beat Lille 2-0), are at the top of the table with 3 points each.

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