The meeting will also see another attractive element, which is approaching the Argentine star of Bursa, Lionel Messi, from monopolizing the title of the historical scorer of the Champions League, where he is currently equal to the number of former Real Madrid player, Raul Gonzalez, with 71 goals.
The meeting comes after the brilliance of "flea" in his team's game last Saturday at home to Sevilla and register for a hat, that set the title of the historical scorer of the Spanish Liga surpassing No. legend Athletic Bilbao late, Telmo Zarra, for a tally of 253 goals.
Barcelona suffered in the first leg, which collected Babual at Camp Nou, which ended with a single goal scored by defender Gerard Pique, where rival struggled not to come out subdued big score.
And decreased performance of the Catalans in the last period dramatically and lost two games in a row in front of Real Madrid and Celta Vigo, before returning triumphantly painstakingly from Almeria Stadium.
But Albulaograna returned and wowed everyone is perhaps the best match of the season against Sevilla 5-1 to win it, and make sure that during the team does not still have much to offer in the way of excellence, and emphasized their ability to continue their way around titles.
It is expected to be repeated the same scenario for the first leg tomorrow, where the Cypriot team will defend the desire to go out with minimal losses, despite the fact that the restoration of Barcelona for his brilliance has changed things, contrary to what happened in the Camp Nou.
Within Barcelona (9 points) mathematically qualify for the round of 16 after winning the last round on the Ajax stadium with two straight goals, the same thing that happened to the pulpy SGS (10 points) after beating APOEL aim at Princes stadium.
During the remaining two rounds, all of Barcelona and the capital of the French team will struggle at the top of their group.
According to all the things that the conflict would be delayed for the last round when Barca hosts French rival at the Camp Nou stadium in two weeks.
Summoned Luis Enrique 22 players for tomorrow's game, in the list devoid of a new star in the middle of the injured Andres Iniesta, due to return in the next group match against Valencia in La Liga in Mestia Stadium.
APOEL is still topping the domestic league in Cyprus, two points behind Apollon Limassol, who drew him scoreless last Friday, to run a second meeting with him without registering a goal, knowing that he has only one goal over the past four games record in the Champions League, in the draw with the aim to like him against Ajax.
Profile expected for both teams:
APOEL: Orco Pardo, Mario Sergio, Gelarma, Carlao, Antoniades, Ephraim, Nuno Morais, or Vinicius de Vincenti, Thiago Gomes, Sheridan, Manduca.
Barcelona: Terre Stegn, Alves, Mascherano, Pique, Alba, Xavi, Busquets, Rakitic, Messi, Luis Suarez, and Neymar.
Referee: Gianluca Rocky (Italy).
Stadium: Nicosia (23 thousand spectators).
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