Monday, 20 October 2014


With Lionel Messi flirting with new highs and Real Madrid waiting for the next weekend, Barcelona will not be distracted on Tuesday when they host Ajax in a Champions League next losing to Paris Saint Germain.

The Barcelona fans craving a victory that minimizes doubt after 3-2 defeat at Paris Saint Germain's court in Group F, which is in the background the possibility that Messi still give more luster to his glorious career. The Argentine star, in the Spanish league is a goal of matching the best record of all time Telmo Zarra (251), also director sniffs maximum figure in the history of the Champions League, then added 68 goals and triplet would match him with the absolute leader: former Real Madrid, Raul Gonzalez, author of 71 continental conquests.

Ajax, third with two units, takes advantage bottom club Apoel Nicosia and dreams slip through, despite his youth and diminished economic potential, in the second phase of the tournament. To do this you must repeat a performance like last season in their stadium, when he overthrew the surprise and Barca 2-1. The visit to the Camp Nou for the opening day of last season was less successful, and trained by Frank De Boer men left the stadium with a painful Barcelona rout behind: 4-0 with Messi hat-trick.

The connection points between Ajax and Barcelona are numerous and date back to the signing of the star Johan Cruyff by the Catalan club in 1973. Both clubs have chosen historically associative play and offensive-minded position, and there are many players who have changed Barca franjiroja elastic by the champions of the Netherlands, and vice versa.


One of them was precisely De Boer from the late 90s and the beginning of the century, when it was "hurdle" mate Luis Enrique, current counterpart on the sidelines of Barca.

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