Barcelona, Manchester City look to seal spots in last 16

Barca romped to a 7-0 win over Celtic in their opening Group C encounter, but Luis Enrique expects a match more like their previous visit to Britain before the worldwide break – a 3-1 loss at former boss Pep Guardiola’s City.

However, despite being thrashed 7-0 by the Catalans in the Nou Camp in September, Rodgers believes his side improved because of the result.

That evening, few would have staked their mortgage on Brendan Rodgers’ side collecting the draws against Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach they have since managed.

Despite that, Barca did lose their last group fixture 3-1 against Manchester City, and failure to win again this week could see Luis Enrique’s side slip to second in the group behind City this week.

“We have to be ready for everything”.

Both the players will be keen to reclaim their roles in the starting eleven, and it will come as a huge boost for manager Luis Enrique as his side could not score a single goal against Malaga.

Although the pair not featuring at Paradise would be good news for Celtic, Boyd believes the Bhoys supporters always want to see the best players playing at Parkhead. They have a big support that follow them home and away and they travelled to the Nou Camp earlier this season.

“I will ask my players to go out and enjoy it as we have the chance to qualify for the next round”.

Barcelona expect to welcome back Lionel Messi, who missed last Saturday’s goalless draw with Malaga after suffering from an illness.

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“But I would hope that it would be a different performance from ourselves”.

Celtic will of course consider these as ‘first-world problems’, with Barca still out in front of Group C with a two point lead.

“There were many different aspects of the game we learned from, showing that courage to get on the ball, having that bravery, having respect for the opponent, but not necessarily within the game”.

“It was a hard night for us, but it was also about learning and clearly we’ve shown from that performance that we have learned from it”.