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The Camp Nou will be the scene of the duel between Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, in the Barcelona x Juventus match, for the Champions League; follow the live broadcast (Photo: AFP)
Barcelona me Juventus face today, Tuesday, December 8 (December 8), at 5:00 p.m. (Brasilia time), at the Camp Nou stadium, in Spain, for the Champions League, a Champions League of Europe. The game will have transmission on TV. You can see live Lionel Messi x Cristiano Ronaldo Closed TV on TNT.
Listen to the live narration transmitted on YouTube from Esporte Interativo:
For the first time since the Portuguese left for Italy in 2018, Juventus’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi meet again in a ‘final’ worth the lead of Group G in the Champions League.
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There are eleven Ballons d’Or, 250 goals in the Champions League and nine titles in the tournament adding the two. On Tuesday, the spotlight will turn to the long-awaited duel between the two world soccer stars, who will meet in Europe’s biggest continental club tournament for the first time since 2011.
A long quarantine caused by the covid-19 had prevented CR7 from playing the first game on October 28, won by Barcelona 2-0, putting the Spanish in a privileged position to maintain the leadership of the group.
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With the setback in the first leg, Pirlo suffered his only defeat so far as a coach against Messi.
“It would be a mistake to say that one is better than the other. The Golden Balls have been shared for fifteen years, it would be a shame to have to choose between these two phenomena, which delight millions of fans. Just thank you,” Pirlo said on Monday . .
The same opinion was shared by his Barça counterpart, Ronald Koeman, for whom “they were the best in the last ten or fifteen years (…) they have incredible statistics of goals, trophies, hat-tricks … I admire them both.”
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This new chapter in the historic rivalry between the two ‘best enemies’ may allow Cristiano to slightly balance his record against Argentine ‘Pulga’.
Is that both in the confrontations and in the number of individual trophies, Messi leads: 16 victories for the Argentine, 33, in his official direct confrontations, against 10 for the Portuguese, 35 years old (with 9 draws), and 6 Gold of ‘Leo’ against 5 of Cristiano.
The last duel dates from May 6, 2018, in a classic league between Barça and Real Madrid that ended 2-2.
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In the Champions League they have already met five times, with two victories for Messi, one for Cristiano and two draws.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Manchester United eliminated Barça in the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2008, in their first international meeting.
Messi got his revenge in the final of the next edition by scoring one of the goals in the 2-0 victory.
And their last confrontation on the European stage dates back to 2011, in the semifinals in which the Catalans beat Real Madrid (2-0, 1-1).
Ronaldo up, Messi down
Against Dynamo Kiev (3-0), last Wednesday, the Portuguese reached the mark of 750 goals as a professional, consolidating himself as the top scorer in the history of the Champions League with 132 goals, against 118 for Messi (who scored 3 goals this season in the Champions League).
Juventus, who only won one of the four games Cristiano lost during the quarantine, has regained stability since the return of the Portuguese, who has scored seven goals in the last seven games (10 in total, of which 8 in Serie A and 2 in Champions).
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For his part, the Argentine seems to have started the season far from his standards: he scored 7 goals in 14 official matches, five of them from penalties.
On Saturday, against the newly promoted Cádiz, Barça suffered their fourth defeat in LaLiga (2-1), and the Argentine was again unmarked.
But, after the penalty in the first leg in Italy, Messi has a new chance to hit the net and, although he scores two goals, he can equal Pelé in the number of official goals scored with a single club jersey (643) . An ideal setting for a long-awaited meeting.
Barcelona vs Juventus for the Champions League: where to watch the live broadcast
Closed TV: TNT channel
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