Barcelona v PSV facts
Barcelona will once again be banking on their despotic home form in a UEFA Champions League when they flog off Group B during home to PSV Eindhoven.
• The Catalan bar won all 5 matches during a Camp Nou in a 2017/18 competition, and are dominant in 5 years during home in a UEFA Champions League. Furthermore, they flog off opposite a PSV side who have never won in Spain in 14 prior visits.
Previous meetings
• Barcelona have won dual of a teams’ 6 fixtures, losing usually one – both clubs have scored 12 goals.
• Most recently, a sides traded 2-2 draws in Eindhoven and Barcelona in a 1997/98 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
• There were also copiousness of goals in a teams’ 1995/96 UEFA Cup quarter-final, Barcelona eventually going by 5-4 on total (2-2 home, 3-2 away).
• PSV won a initial tie between a sides, in a 1977/78 UEFA Cup semi-finals, 4-3 on aggregate. The Dutch bar won a home initial leg 3-0 – a teams’ initial assembly – and survived a 3-1 detriment in Spain to progress; they went on to win a trophy.
Form guide
Barcelona
• Spanish champions for a 25th time – and third in 4 years – in 2017/18, Barcelona have been European champions on 5 occasions, many recently in 2015.
• Barça have won their organisation in any of a past 11 seasons, and have reached during slightest a quarter-finals in also those UEFA Champions League campaigns, both foe records. In 2017/18, they succumbed to a conspicuous Roma fightback in a final eight, going out notwithstanding a 4-1 home first-leg feat after losing 3-0 in a Rome return.
• That better during Roma finished Barcelona’s ten-match dominant run in a UEFA Champions League (W6 D4).
• Barcelona are dominant in 26 UEFA Champions League home matches, a run that started in Sep 2013 (W24 D2). They have won all their home organisation games in a final 5 editions.
• The Spanish side’s final fixtures opposite Eredivisie antithesis came in 2014/15, when they degraded Ajax twice in a organisation theatre (3-1 home, 2-0 away).
PSV
• The Eindhoven bar claimed their 24th Dutch joining pretension in 2017/18 – a third time in 4 seasons they have carried a Eredivisie crown.
• This is PSV’s 16th deteriorate in a organisation theatre – some-more than any other Dutch side. They competent by violence Belarus champions BATE Borisov 6-2 on total in a play-offs (3-2 away, 3-0 home).
• The first-leg win during BATE finished a ten-game run but a European divided win for PSV (D4 L6).
• European Cup winners in 1988, PSV have reached a UEFA Champions League knockout theatre usually 4 times – many recently in 2015/16, when they got to a final 16.
• The Eindhoven bar unsuccessful to win a diversion in their final organisation appearance, in 2016/17 (D2 L4) and have not won in their final 8 UEFA Champions League fixtures, organisation theatre to final (D4 L4).
• Their final divided win in a UEFA Champions League correct was a 1-0 success during CSKA Moskva in Nov 2007. Their record given afterwards is D3 L7.
• PSV’s 2017/18 European debate lasted usually one tie – they mislaid 1-0 home and divided to Croatian bar Osijek in a UEFA Europa League third subordinate round.
• PSV’s record in Spain is W0 D5 L9. Home and away, they are but a win given a 3-2 home better of Deportivo La Coruña in Dec 2003; their record given is D3 L5, many recently home (0-1) and divided (2-0) defeats opposite Atlético Madrid in a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
Links and trivia
• PSV manager Mark outpost Bommel was a Barcelona actor in 2005/06, winning a UEFA Champions League and a Spanish Liga pretension in his usually deteriorate during a Camp Nou.
• Van Bommel was partial of a Netherlands side beaten 1-0 by Spain, whose choice enclosed Gerard Piqué and Sergio Busquets, in a 2010 FIFA World Cup final.
• Have played in a Netherlands:
Luis Suárez (Groningen 2006/07, Ajax 2007–11)
Jasper Cillessen (NEC Nijmegen 2010–11, Ajax 2011–16)
Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax 2003–09, RKC Waalwijk 2004/05 loan)
• Has played in Spain:
Angelino (Mallorca 2017 loan)
• International team-mates:
Jasper Cillessen Jeroen Zoet, Luuk de Jong (Netherlands)