Barcelona vs Juventus, Champions League - as it happened: Result and analysis from Camp Nou
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Your support makes all the difference.Crisis. What crisis? After a summer of turmoil, humiliation in the transfer market and a revolt against the board, Barcelona are back to doing what they do best: winning games of football.
While the departure of Neymar and failure to land the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Jean-Michael Seri, as well as the ongoing contract sagas surrounding Leo Messi and Andres Iniesta, have cast the club in a bad light, there is no doubt new manager Ernesto Valverde has enjoyed a good start to his reign - on the pitch at least.
Barca have won their first three La Liga games, scoring nine and conceding none, and they already sit four points clear of bitter rivals Real Madrid - a side many rate as the best in Europe.
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What time does it start?
The game kicks off at 7.45pm (BST) at Camp Nou on Tuesday 12 September.
Where can I watch it?
BT Sport Extra 2 will be broadcasting the game. Alternatively, return to this page for updates from our live blog.
It's a big game for...
Ousmane Dembele. Neymar was Barcelona's undoubted star of the Champions League last season, almost single-handedly turning the round of 16 tie against PSG around before then joining the club this summer. Can the young Frenchman Barca replaced him with live up to the hype? Tuesday night's game will be a big test for the winger after a bit-part debut against Espanyol at the weekend. The Camp Nou expects.
Player to watch...
Paulo Dybala. Tipped as a long-term replacement for Messi at both Barcelona and in the Argentina national team, but yet another player the Camp Nou hierarchy failed to land this summer. Quite brilliant in Juve's run to the final last season, including an imperious display when these two sides met in Turin when he scored a brace. Another performance like that and Barca fans will be imploring the club to sign him.
Form...
Barcelona: WWWLL
Juventus: WWWLL
Odds...
Barcelona win: 4/7
Draw: 10/3
Juventus win: 5/1
11 mins: RED CARD! BAYERN MUNICH 0 ANDERLECHT 0:
A difficult evening for Anderlecht as just got that bit harder following the dismissal of Sven Kums. The centre-back has been red carded after pulling back Robert Lewandowski after the Polish striker had got goalside of his marker. And it could be about to get worse because it's a penalty to the German champions...
12 mins: GOAL! BAYERN MUNICH 1 ANDERLECHT 0:
Robert Lewandowski makes no mistake, sweeping home from the sport to put Bayern into an early lead.
13 mins: GOAL! OLYMPIAKOS 0 SPORTING LISBON 2:
If the Olympiakos defending was bad for Sporting's opener, it was even worse for the second. Seydou Doumbia and Gelson Martins were left in acres of space as the visitors quickly counter-attacked, and the latter had no problem rolling in his fifth goal of the season.
15 mins: Man Utd 0 Basel 0: The goals are flying in, but not at Old Trafford. Nevertheless, it's been a promising start for United, who have seen plenty of the ball and have registered a couple of shots through Romelu Lukaku. The only scare for the home fans came when Henrikh Mkhitaryan went down with a knock, but the Armenian was fit to continue a couple of minutes later.
18 mins: Man Utd 0 Basel 0: This isn't such good news for United followers though. Paul Pogba - the Red Devils captain for the night - has pulled up, holding his hamstring. The French midfielder is in clear discomfort and signals to the bench that he will not be able to continue. It's a huge blow for the player and his club.
Marouane Fellaini is the man who will replace Pogba.
19 mins: GOAL! CELTIC 0 PSG 1:
The most expensive footballer in the world, Neymar, has given PSG the lead at Parkhead. The home side were guilty of switching off after they weren't awarded a free-kick for a foul on Scott Sinclair, and that allowed Adrien Rabiot to thread a pass beyond Anthony Ralson for the Brazilian to move in and place a shot high past Craig Gordon.
23 mins: Man Utd 0 Basel 0: Henrikh Mkhitaryan hits the post! Old Trafford was celebrating when Lukaku powered his way to the touchline and pulled the ball back into the six-yard box, but the Armenian's close range effort returned off the base of the woodwork. Mkhitaryan had a second bite at the cherry, but his follow up fell into the grateful arms of the grounded Tomas Vaclik.
28 mins: Man Utd 0 Basel 0: Mkhitaryan can't be enjoying this first half. Following his close range miss moments ago, the Armenian playmaker is now writhing around in agony after finding himself on the receiving end of an awful looking Eder Balanta lunge. Thankfully for all involved, there was minimal contact otherwise the results - Mkhitaryan fit to continue and a yellow card for Balanta - could have been much worse.
30 mins: GOAL! CHELSEA 2 QARABAG 0:
It's 2-0 at Stamford Bridge where Davide Zappacosta has his first goal for Chelsea in spectacularly fortunate circumstances. The Italian burst down the right and sent a cross flying over the head of Ibrahim Sehic.
35 mins: GOAL! MAN UTD 1 BASEL 0:
United breakthrough! Moments after Basel's most threatening moment of the game, a snapshot from Luca Zuffi, and the home side take the lead. The goal came courtesy of two players that not many would have expected to make a mark this evening, but Ashley Young - in the side for the first time this season, got down the right and crossed perfectly for substitute Marouane Fellaini to head past Tomas Vaclik. The Belgian had only been on 17 minutes for the injured Paul Pogba.
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