Barcelona vs Bayern Munich: Champions League prediction, kick-off time, TV, live stream, team news, h2h results, odds

Two of European football’s biggest heavyweights clash astatine the Camp Nou for the archetypal clip since the aged radical signifier successful 2022/23, erstwhile Bayern continued their dominance of this fixture by winning 2-0 astatine location and 3-0 away.

The free-scoring German giants caput backmost to Catalonia connected Wednesday evening having gone backmost to the apical of the Bundesliga nether caller caput manager Vincent Kompany - putting 4 past Stuttgart past clip retired - arsenic good arsenic hitting Dinamo Zagreb for 9 successful their Champions League opener, though they were narrowly defeated by Aston Villa past period connected Harry Kane’s instrumentality to England.

Barca are besides successful bully spirits, sitting 3 points up of fierce rivals Real Madrid astatine the LaLiga acme up of El Clasico connected Saturday nighttime aft thrashing Sevilla 5-1. However, similar Bayern they besides person 1 triumph and connected decision to their sanction successful this caller league phase, bested distant astatine Monaco earlier easing past Young Boys.

This high-profile showdown features ex-Bayern extremity instrumentality Robert Lewandowski going up against his erstwhile club, portion existent Barca brag Hansi Flick besides managed Bayern betwixt 2019-21.

Barcelona vs Bayern Munich is scheduled for an 8pm BST kick-off connected Wednesday October 23, 2024.

The lucifer volition instrumentality spot astatine the Camp Nou successful Barcelona.

TV channel: In the UK, the crippled volition beryllium televised unrecorded connected TNT Sports 4, with sum opening aft the decision of Celtic’s travel to Europa League holders Atalanta successful the aboriginal kick-off window.

Live stream: Fans tin drawback the contention unrecorded online via the Discovery+ app and website.

Live blog: You tin travel each the enactment connected matchday via Standard Sport’s unrecorded blog.

Barcelona person a fig of semipermanent wounded absentees astatine present, including Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Andreas Christensen, Ronald Araujo, Ferran Torres and Marc Bernal.

The aforesaid is besides existent of Bayern, who are without the likes of Sacha Boey, Hiroki Ito, Josip Stanisic and Aleksandar Pavlovic.

Jamal Musiala is said to beryllium targeting a comeback from a hep issue, portion Barcelona could person each of Gavi, Dani Olmo and Frenkie de Jong backmost successful their starting lineup.

Bayern person dominated this fixture implicit caller times, lone losing 2 of 13 erstwhile meetings with Barcelona successful the Champions League.

They person won 4 successful a enactment without conceding since that 8-2 annihilation successful the 2019/20 quarter-finals successful Lisbon, brushing speech the Blaugrana clip and clip again.

The onus volition beryllium connected Flick to extremity specified a fearfulness tally against his erstwhile side, particularly connected location ungraded with different Clasico looming ample astatine the weekend.

Both of these sides person been banging successful the goals for amusive during awesome home starts and person made akin openings successful Europe, truthful we’re opting for an entertaining gully that should not beryllium abbreviated connected play and entertainment.

Bayern Munich to win: 17/10

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).