Barcelona host Benfica in the UEFA Champions League group stages on Tuesday night.
Venue: Camp Nou
Key statistics
Barcelona are unbeaten in their last four matches across all competitions.
Benfica are unbeaten in five of their last six matches across all competitions.
Benfica have conceded 9 goals in their last four Champions League games.
Head to head
These two sides have met five times since 2006 and Barcelona have picked up two wins and two draws in that time. Benfica have managed to pick up just one win over Barcelona in the last 15 years but the result came earlier this year in September.
Latest performances in all competitions
Barcelona: LLDWDW
Benfica: WDDLWW
Barcelona
The Spanish outfit are coming into this game on the back of a 1-0 win over bitter rivals Espanyol and Xavi Hernandez will be expecting all three points against Benfica as well.
The Spanish giants were beaten by the Portuguese outfit back in September and they will be looking to avenge that defeat here.
Barcelona are undoubtedly the better team on paper and it remains to be seen whether Xavi can get his players firing on all cylinders.
Possible Barcelona starting line-up
Marc-Andre Ter Stegen; Oscar Mingueza, Gerard Pique, Ronald Araujo, Jordi Alba; Gavi, Sergio Busquets, Frenkie De Jong; Sergino Dest, Memphis Depay, Phil Coutinho
Benfica
The Portuguese outfit are coming into this game on the back of two consecutive wins and they have managed to score ten goals in the process.
The visitors managed to beat Barcelona 30 previously and they will be hoping to pull off an upset at Camp Nou on Tuesday night.
The two teams are separated by just two points in the group and a win here could prove to be vital for either side.
Possible Benfica starting line-up
Odysseas Vlachodimos; Nicolas Otamendi, Morato, Jan Vertonghen; Gilberto, Pizzi, Julian Weigl, Alex Grimaldo; Rafa Silva, Roman Yaremchuk, Darwin Nunez
Prediction
Barcelona 2-1 Benfica
