Barcelona will be looking for another victory when they face Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday.
Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona best bets
- Barcelona -2.5 Asian handicap – 13/10 with VBET
- Barcelona to win to nil – 22/23 with VBET
- Lamine Yamal to score any time – 27/14 with VBET
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Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona predictions
Not even the most optimistic Barcelona fans could have envisaged their team’s start to the La Liga season.
Hansi Flick’s team have been close to perfect in the first 12 rounds of fixtures in Spain’s top flight. Eleven of those matches have ended in victory for Barcelona, whose copybook contains just one blot in the form of a surprise 4-2 defeat by Osasuna.
Their most memorable win, of course, was the astonishing 4-0 demolition of Real Madrid the weekend before last.
The Blancos saw their scheduled meeting with Valencia postponed last time out, allowing Barcelona to extend their lead at the summit of the standings to seven points.
Attention now turns back to the Champions League. Since Europe’s foremost competition was rebranded in 1992, only Real Madrid have lifted the trophy more often than Barcelona.
The Blaugrana won the last edition of the European Cup in 1992, before triumphing in the revamped tournament in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015.
However, they have had little to cheer about on the continent of late. Barcelona last reached the semi-finals in 2018/19, when they saw a 3-0 first-leg lead turn into a 4-3 aggregate defeat by Liverpool.
In the last five campaigns, Barca have been eliminated in the group phase as often as they have reached the quarter-finals. That is a poor record for a club that has enjoyed so much success in the Champions League over the last couple of decades.
Barcelona’s domestic form has fuelled hopes that they are ready to challenge on the continent too.
A 2-1 loss to Monaco on matchday one was not the ideal start to the league phase, but Barcelona followed that up with back-to-back home triumphs over Young Boys (5-0) and Bayern Munich (4-1).
Flick is now looking for a third consecutive victory in the Champions League, but he has warned his players not to be complacent as he thought they were in the second period of Sunday’s 3-1 defeat of Espanyol.
“I accept the second half was not good, but I will not accept that on Wednesday, we need to do better. The tension dropped in the second half and we made mistakes,” he said.
Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona betting tips
Barcelona are strong favourites to get the better of Red Star Belgrade when the pair go head-to-head.
Barcelona -2.5 Asian handicap
Red Star Belgrade collected just one point from six Champions League group games last time out, but they will not necessarily better that tally despite two extra matches this term.
Red Star have lost all three encounters to date, suffering defeats by Benfica (1-2), Inter (0-4) and Monaco (1-5). That does not bode well for this meeting with Barcelona, who might just be the best team on the continent right now.
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Flick’s comments after the Espanyol game shows he will not tolerate a drop in standards from his team, so we can expect Barcelona to come out all guns blazing in Belgrade.
The Rajko Mitic Stadium produces a fantastic atmosphere when it gets going, but that will not be enough to bridge the gulf in on-field quality between these two teams.
Barcelona can win this one by a three-goal margin or more.
Back Barcelona with a -2.5 Asian handicap at 13/10 with VBET
Barcelona to win to nil
Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have conceded fewer or the same number of goals as Barcelona in La Liga, but the Catalans blow the other two out of the water at the other end of the field.
Barca have scored 40 goals overall, Remarkably, that is one more than Madrid and Atletico combined.
They have also been highly productive in the Champions League: only Borussia Dortmund have notched more goals than Barcelona’s 10.
On this occasion, we anticipate Barca marrying their attacking potency with defensive solidity.
Red Star Belgrade rank fifth-bottom for expected goals, joint seventh-bottom for goals and fourth-bottom for shots on target. A clean sheet is in the offing for Flick’s men on Wednesday.
Tip Barcelona to win to nil at 22/23 with VBET
Lamine Yamal to score any time
“Honestly I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never seen a player like it. One training session was enough to realise he’s different, that he’s one of the fenomeni.”
That was Alvaro Morata discussing Barcelona and Spain sensation Lamine Yamal in an interview with The Athletic this week.
That is high praise from a man who has played for clubs the size of Real Madrid, Juventus, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan.
Still only 17 years old, it is extraordinary to think Yamal is already one of the best forwards in European football.
The teenager has no fear and we expect him to find the back of the net against Red Star Belgrade.
Choose Lamine Yamal to score any time at 27/14 with VBET
How to watch Red Star Belgrade vs Barcelona
- Location: Rajko Mitic Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia.
- Date and time: Wednesday 6th November, 8pm.
- How to watch: TNT Sports 6.
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