Manchester United vs Barcelona TV channel: What time is Champions League quarter-final, team news and prediction

The Champions League quarter-finals sees a famous European rivalry renewed for the first time since the 2010/11 final

Jack de Menezes
Wednesday 10 April 2019 18:42 BST
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Manchester United take on Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals with the two sides meeting for the first time since the 2011 final, renewing a rivalry between two of the world’s biggest football clubs.

United’s resurgence under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been epitomised by their European revival, having beaten reigning French league champions Paris Saint-Germain in the last-16 in the most extraordinary of circumstances. Tasked with overturning a 2-0 first-leg deficit, United secured a 3-1 victory at the Parc des Princes – thanks to Marcus Rashford’s injury-time penalty – to set-up a quarter-final showdown with the Liga leaders.

But the Premier League side will need more than just momentum if they are to reach the last four of the Champions League for the first time since their run to the 2010/11 final under Sir Alex Ferguson.

Barcelona went unbeaten in their group stage, securing four wins and two draws against PSV Eindhoven, Inter Milan and Premier League opposition in Spurs, before thrashing Lyon 5-1 in their last-16 second leg after a goalless draw in France.

With Lionel Messi currently joint-top goalscorer in the Champions League with Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, Barcelona are one of the toughest sides United could have been drawn against in the last eight, and having not reached the semi-finals themselves for the last three seasons, Ernesto Valverde’s side will be desperate to emerge victorious from this two-leg affair.

Here's everything you need to know:

What time is kick-off and how can I watch it?

The game kicks off at 8pm at Old Trafford.

It will be broadcast on BT Sport 2 and BT Sport 4K UHD. For those without access to a TV it can also be live streamed online via the BT Sport website.

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Predicted line-ups

Manchester United: De Gea, Young, Smalling, Lindelof, Shaw, Matic, Herrera, Pogba, Lingard, Rashford, Lukaku

Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Roberto, Pique, Lenglet, Alba, Rakitic, Busquets, Vidal, Messi, Suarez, Coutinho

Odds

Manchester United: 3/1

Draw: 13/5

Barcelona: Evens

Lionel Messi is the joint-top goalscorer in the Champions League this season (Getty)

Prediction

Manchester United did the unthinkable once in the last round, and Barca aren’t the vaunted team of a few years previous, but it’s still hard to imagine the Spanish champions in waiting leaving Old Trafford without at least one away goal.

They can be got at and there are goals to be had if United (Romelu Lukaku specifically) strap on their shooting boots – despite the brilliance of Marc-Andre Ter Stegen between the sticks – but Messi and Co. will be looking to kill the tie this week ahead of next week’s second leg.

Expect Luis Suarez to get on the scoresheet, at least once, with United perhaps giving themselves a chance ahead of the trip to the Nou Camp with one in reply. 1-3.

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