FC Barcelona and Brest will face off on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 5th week of the Champions League. The match will take place in Barcelona at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. The appointed referee is Irfan Peljto.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
FC Barcelona
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (4 times).
Hans-Dieter Flick is expected to play against Brest with the following players: Iñaki Peña, Hector Fort, Pau Cubarsí, Iñigo Martínez, J. Koundé, Pedri, Raphinha, Dani Olmo, Fermín López and R. Lewandowski.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of FC Barcelona would be 25.20.
Hans-Dieter Flick will probably not be able to employ Ronald Araújo and Eric García because of injury.
Marc-André ter Stegen , Alejandro Balde, Andreas Christensen, Ferran Torres, Lamine Yamal and Ansu Fati will definitely miss the match.
Brest
Brest has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (3 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (3 times) and 4-3-2-1 (once).
Eric Roy is expected to play against FC Barcelona with the following players: Marco Bizot, Jordan Amavi, Brendan Chardonnet, Julien Le Cardinal, Kenny Lala, Hugo Magnetti, E. Fernandes, Mahdi Camara, Kamory Doumbia, Mama Baldé and Abdallah Sima.
Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Brest would be 27.82.
Eric Roy will probably not be able to employ Romain Faivre because of injury.
Soumaila Coulibaly, Massadio Haïdara, Bradley Locko and Pierre Lees Melou will definitely miss the match.
