Man Utd vs Barcelona
Uefa Champions League 2018-19
Quarter-final, first leg
Venue: Old Trafford
Date: Wednesday, 10 April, 2019
Kick-off time: 8pm GMT, tonight
Manchester United's reward for a stunning Champions League comeback against PSG is the chance to work out how to stop Lionel Messi and Barcelona.
Man Utd headed to Paris needed to overturn a 2-0 home defeat in their round-of-16 tie against the French giants, and Marcus Rashford's injury-time penalty secured a remarkable 3-1 win to send United through to the quarter-finals on away goals.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Red Devils have been handed arguably the toughest possible draw in the last eight as they take on LaLiga Barcelona, with Messi in sensational form as Ernesto Valverde's Blaugrana all but wrapped up the Spanish title race with a 2-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Satuday.
Messi has scored 13 goals and set up another four in his last 10 games, and now Solskjaer's job will be to prevent Argentine magician from lighting up Old Trafford.
Man Utd vs Barcelona team news and line-ups
Man Utd XI: De Gea, Young, Lindelof, Smalling, Shaw, Dalot, McTominay, Fred, Pogba, Rashford, Lukaku
Subs: Romero, Jones, Rojo, Andreas, Lingard, Mata, Martial
Barcelona XI: Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba, Busquets, Arthur, Rakitic, Coutinho, Messi, Suarez
Subs: Cillessen, Dembele, Malcom, Sergi, Vidal, Umtiti, Alena
Score prediction: Man Utd 1-2 Barcelona
It is almost impossible to predict anything other than a Barcelona win if Messi is on form - and that would be the same against any other club team in the world.
As with their stunning last-16 win over PSG, United may well have more joy on the road than at Old Trafford, with Solskjaer's tactics suited to playing on the counter-attack against possession-based teams.
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