Galatasaray beat Liverpool twice in this stadium last season and also drew 1-1 with Atletico Madrid and beat Juventus 5-2 and Bodo/Glimt 3-1. But tend to perform poorly on the road in the CL and they opened with a 3-1 defeat at Sporting on Matchday 1. At home they have huge and passionate support and play with far greater self belief. They have some class in their ranks in Baris Alper Yilmaz and especially Victor Osimhen, who surprisingly has opted to stay another season. He was not available for the trip to Lisbon, but returned to action at the weekend with 15 minutes off the bench and will surely play as long as possible tonight. He has 6 goals and 3 assists in just 316 Super Lig minutes this season and is vital if they are going to push Barcelona. The hosts also added Rafael Leao from Milan and Aleksey Batrakov from Lokomotiv Moscow for big fees this summer, they are both only now approaching full fitness and Gala will pose a big goal threat, just not as big as Barcelona's once the dust has settled!

 

Barce opened with a 5-1 win over Feyenoord and have won all 9 competitive games, but have conceded 2+ goals in three of those and they have given up at least one in 5 of their last 7 starts. They are without a clean sheet in their last 10 CL starts, conceding 2+ in five and 17 goals total.