Barcelona will be looking to win their third consecutive Champions League game when they travel to Serbia to face Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday evening.
The Catalan giants are also looking to win their third consecutive away game without conceding in all competitions, while the Red-Whites head into this encounter with just one win in their last six home games in the Champions League.
Latest Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona team information
Red Star winger Peter Olayinka has been ruled out of the game with an Achilles injury, while Nemanja Radonjic will also miss Wednesday's game after being forced off with an unspecified problem just eight minutes after coming on as a substitute against Vojvodina on Sunday.
Goalkeeper Omri Glazer and defender Ognjen Mimovic have missed much of the season through injury, and it remains unclear whether either player will be ready to return to the squad for the match against Barcelona.
Cherif Ndiaye is Red Star's top scorer so far with 10 goals in 14 games, and he is expected to lead the attack alongside Bruno Duarte, who has scored six goals this season, while former AC Milan midfielder Rade Krunic, Timi Max Elsnik and 17-year-old Andrija Maksimovic could also combine in midfield.
As for Barcelona, they will be without Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Marc Bernal (both knee injuries), Ronald Araujo, Ferran Torres (both hamstring injuries), Eric Garcia (muscle injury) and Andreas Christensen (Achilles injury).
Flick could consider recalling Jules Kounde at right-back in place of Hector Fort, while Frenkie de Jong and Gavi will hope to regain their places in central midfield ahead of Marc Casado and Pedri.
Raphinha has contributed 20 goals (11 goals, nine assists) in 15 games under Flick. The Brazilian winger - who scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 win over Bayern Munich on Matchday 3 - is expected to start up front alongside Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal.
Latest expected lineup Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona
Red Star Belgrade:
Ilic; Young-woo, Spajic, Djiga; Silas, Krunic, Elsnik, Maksimovic, Rodic; Duarte, Ndiaye
Barcelona:
Pena; Kounde, Cubarsi, Martinez, Balde; De Jong, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Lewandowski
Latest football commentary Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona
Barring minor stumbles against Monaco (2-1) in the Champions League and Osasuna (4-2) in La Liga, Barcelona have been perfect in their other 13 games so far this season and head into Wednesday's game on a six-game winning streak, scoring an impressive 24 goals in the process.
Hansi Flick's side cruised to a 5-0 home win over Young Boys in their second Champions League game of the new campaign, before beating Bayern Munich 4-1 on matchday three a fortnight ago, moving them up to 10th in the 36-team UCL table and just three points off the top.
On the domestic front, Barcelona followed up their impressive 4-0 El Clasico win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu with a 3-1 win over Catalan rivals Espanyol last weekend, thanks to a brace from summer signing Dani Olmo and a goal from in-form winger Raphinha.
Currently sitting atop La Liga with a nine-point lead over Real Madrid, albeit having played a game more, Barcelona will now turn their focus back to the Champions League and prepare for their first meeting with Red Star since October 1996, when the Catalan giants won 4-2 on aggregate in the second round of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup en route to the title.
After scoring nine goals in their last two Champions League games against Young Boys (four) and Bayern (five), Barcelona are looking to score four or more in three consecutive European games for the first time since the 1959-60 season, when they scored five against AC Milan and nine in two against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Red Star Belgrade are one of nine clubs still searching for their first win of the 2024-25 Champions League season, and are also one of six without a point after three games, while they have also conceded a total of 11 goals (level with Slovan Bratislava and Dinamo Zagreb).
The Red and Whites lost 2-1 at home to Benfica in their first match and suffered a heavy 4-0 defeat to Inter Milan in their second, before losing 5-1 at Monaco in their most recent UCL game a fortnight ago. Red Star have lost 81% of their Champions League games (W2 D2 L17), the worst record of any team to have played at least 20 games in the competition.
Under Vladan Milojevic, the team unsurprisingly finished 33rd in the 36-team group, but they are just three points off the last-16 playoff spots with five games remaining. However, it is hard to imagine the Serbian side picking up valuable points in their next three games against Barcelona, Stuttgart and AC Milan.
While points have been hard to come by for Red Star in the Champions League so far, they have shone domestically, winning 12 and drawing one of their 13 Serbian SuperLiga games this season, scoring 43 goals and conceding just eight. They extended their lead at the top of the table to 10 points with a 3-0 win over Vojvodina on Sunday, just four days after thrashing Tekstilac Odzaci 7-0 in the Serbian Cup.
Red Star go into Wednesday's clash with Barcelona having won just two of their previous nine European meetings with the Catalan giants - both in the 1960s in the Fairs Cup (3-2 in December 1962 and 1-0 in January 1963). They are looking to avoid becoming the first team since Benfica between March 2017 and September 2018 to lose eight consecutive Champions League games.
Score prediction Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the match Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona :
- Sportsmole: Red Star Belgrade 0-4 Barcelona
- WhoScore: Red Star Belgrade 0-3 Barcelona
- Our prediction: Red Star Belgrade 0-4 Barcelona
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