Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said Monday that his former side AS Roma can not expect any favours when they take on the European and Spanish champions at the Camp Nou on Tuesday.
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Saturday’s dismantling of Madrid at the Bernabeu was a fourth straight victory in all competitions for in-form Barcelona, who have scored 12 goals without conceding during that run.
“Our objective is to finish in first place in the group”, Enrique told reporters during his pre-match press conference.
Barcelona are five points clear at the top of the group and need just a point to progress while Roma will qualify with a win if Bayer Leverkusen fail to beat BATE Borisov in the group’s other match.
“I always have positive relationship with most of players if not all of them and I’ve always had a good relationship with Leo”.
Rudi Garcia will also have to do without a number of attacking options as Gervinho and Mohamed Salah miss out through injury, whilst captain Francesco Totti hasn’t featured since suffering a thigh injury two months ago.
Wenger said: “It’s true that we need a positive result from Bayern but that positive result only has an impact if we win, so let’s focus on what we can do”.
“We battled hard and tried to play our game despite the weather”. It will be a very demanding encounter and an open match.
“Over there we saw how defensive they can be…it will be an interesting game because both teams play very good football”. “For Roma it’s an attractive situation, to come to Camp Nou and win”.
It was a game to forget for the French tactician, who was just grateful to arrive in Barcelona without accruing any fresh injury concerns.
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Barca were close to their irresistible best in dismantling bitter rivals Real Madrid 4-0 on Saturday and could hand a first start to Lionel Messi since September, with the Argentina superstar fit again following knee ligament damage.
