Barcelona along with Manchester City from Group C have already qualified for the next stage in Champions league. On the other hand, Borussia M'Gladbach will play their last game in the champions league 2016/17 but will be fighting for their place in Europa League.
M'Gladbach have been winless in their last 7 games 3 lost and 2 drawn in 5 league games and 2 drawn in their last UCL games against City and Celtic.
The Foals are really having a bad run of form at the moment, they suffered the latest defeat against Borussia Dortmund this weekend.
Luis Enrique's Barcelona side have also not been in their best form either as they drew 4 in their last 5 games they played. latest being the 1-1 draw against Real Madrid.
Lucho will be coming up without the suspended duo of Rakitic and Neymar as well as the injured Jeremy Mathieu and even decided to give two important players Ter Stegen and Pique some rest before they face Osasuna this weekend.
Marc Cardona has been given a chance with the first team once again after he debuted last week against Hércules in Copa Del Rey.
Andre Schubert will be without their attacking midfielder L.Stindl after he was shown a second yellow against Manchester City.
Not much is there to say about Lionel Messi who is the Leading Goal scorer in Champions league for the home side with 9 goals in 4 games this season, he is in form in European Competitions this as he has already scored 2 hattricks and a brace in the 4 games he played.
The final Barcelona squad of 18 for tonight's game includes these players: Cillessen, Masip, Sergio, Denis, Arda, A.Iniesta, Suárez, Messi, Rafinha, Mascherano, Paco Alcácer, Jordi Alba, Digne, Sergi Roberto, André Gomes, Aleix Vidal, Umtiti and Cardona.
Predicted Lineups:
FC Barcelona: Cillessen ; Roberto, Mascherano, Umtiti, Digne ; Rafinha, Busquets, Iniesta ; Messi, Suárez, Arda.
M'Gladbach: Y.sommer ; N.Elvidi, Jantschke, Christensen, Wendt ; Hoffman, Strobl ; I.Traore, Schulz, Johnson; Raffel.
As things stand by now Schuber's side will be playing for pride and hope to gain at least a point against the Spanish champions, 0n the other hand Barcelona have nothing to lose from this game so Luis Enrique can also provide Paco Alcacer some minutes and even to Marc Cardona.
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