Barcelona and Bayern eye Champions League last-16

Bayern complete 90.7% of their passes to Barcelona’s 88.6%, but the hierarchy is reversed for ball retention, with Luis Enrique’s men monopolising the orb for 67.6% of games on average, to Die Roten’s 66.9%. Police detained almost 200 people.

The Champions League is “done and dusted until February” for Josep Guardiola after his side cruised into the last 16 with a 4-0 win over Olympiacos.

Matters should be calmer on the pitch.

They host Arsenal in the final round of fixtures knowing a draw will be enough to see them advance to the last 16. Third-place Leverkusen trail Roma by a point but their away form in this season’s competition, including the play-off round, reads three defeats from three.

Robert Lewandowski: With fourteen goals in the Bundesliga and four in Europe, Lewandowski is helping Bayern steamroll their way through domestic and European affairs with exceptional goal difference. “Winning the group was the team’s main target – it’s what we’ve pursued from match to match”, concurred Jérôme Boateng.

With injured David Alaba, Juan Bernat, Franck Ribery, Thiago Alcantara and Mario Goetze all working on their own comebacks from injury, expect Guardiola’s team to be even stronger when the knockout stage gets underway in the new year with their relentless and lightning-quick attacking game an even more daunting challenge for their opponents.

Let us know what you think of this UEFA Champions League match in the comments section below! Not this season. Not with midfield shortages more acute than ever for Arsene Wenger’s team.

However only five goals have found their way past Bayern in the Bundesliga so far while Enrique’s charges have shipped an average of one a game (12/12) so far this season.

The former Barcelona boss has stalled on contract talks with Bayern’s board, and Cadena Cope have now reported that the manager wants a change of scenery.

The only high point of the campaign has been beating Bayern at home. On the one hand, Bayern is trying to shut the doors in the faces of potential buyers from the Premier League. For now, Guardiola is in charge of the best ever Bayern squad and seems to be happy about it. His team does not seem to be unduly affected by their coach’s uncertain future.

Guardiola is quoted by ESPN FC as saying: “I’m very pleased about qualifying”.

Dinamo has never progressed from the group stage and travels to London amid a scandal shaking the club.

Muller passed the milestone in Tuesday’s home win over Olympiacos at the age of 26 years, two months and 11 days.

“A lot of things have to come together for us to create another surprise but we believe in ourselves”.