Read our prediction for Monaco vs Barcelona below. This preview was written by a sport journalist who is specialised in betting tips and predictions.
Monaco vs Barcelona Prediction & Betting tips
The third consecutive day of the UEFA Champions League, a first in this sense, we are talking about the fact that in this first round, the matches were divided over three days and thus they are played on Thursday as well. Today’s match is Monaco vs Barcelona, the match will be hosted by Stade Louis II in France. The two teams recently met this summer in a friendly match played in Barcelona, where AS Monaco surprisingly won 3-0. Apart from this confrontation, there were only two other official confrontations, 30 years ago, also in the UEFA Champions League groups, and then Barcelona won both matches, 2-0 in the first leg at home and 1-0 in the second leg away from home.
Monaco:
AS Monaco started the season very well, and in the four matches in Ligue 1, they recorded three victories and a draw, in which they only conceded one goal. In the most recent match, AS Monaco prevailed 3-0 away on the field of Auxerre, and with the ten accumulated points they are in 3rd place in the ranking. Monaco returns to the UEFA Champions League groups after a six-year break, when in the previous participation it occupied the last place in the ranking in a group with Dortmund, Atletico Madrid and Club Brugge and accumulated only one point, in the away match with Club Brugge, ended in a draw, score 1-1. For Monaco, the match against Le Havre at home in the championship follows, and in the Champions League the next opponent will be Dinamo Zagreb on the road.
Barcelona:
On the other hand, FC Barcelona is in top form, achieving maximum points after five rounds played in LaLiga under the command of Hansi Flick. In the five games, Barcelona scored 17 goals and conceded 4, winning 7-0 at home against Valladolid. For the match with Monaco, Barcelona will be without the contribution of some players who are in great form this season, Fermin Lopez and Dani Olmo, but also the oldest injured players, Gavi, de Jong and Christensen. In the previous edition of the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona was eliminated in the quarter-finals by PSG, even though they had managed to win the away match 3-2, but in the return leg at home they lost 4-1, this after opening the first the score through Raphinha in the 12th minute, but everything broke in the 29th minute with the elimination of Ronald Araujo. Barcelona will play the next away match in LaLiga against Villarreal, and in the UEFA Champions League the next opponent will be Young Boys Bern.
Monaco vs Barcelona head to head matches
12.08.24 CF Barcelona vs Monaco 0:3
13.04.94 CL Monaco vs Barcelona 0:1
08.12.93 CL Barcelona vs Monaco 2:0
* Our advice is: Barcelona WIN
* Selection odd for this bet is: 1.75
* This analyis is from our perspective and we highly recommend to inform also yourself about all details that can be decisive in your choise to bet!
