Barcelona vs Dynamo Kiev UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be the 11th meeting between Barcelona and Dynamo Kiev in European competition, with the Spanish side winning six of the previous 10 (D1 L3).
Barcelona and Dynamo Kiev have been drawn together in the group stage of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League for the fourth time – Barcelona won both group meetings in 1991/92 and 2009/10, while the Ukrainian side won both in 1997/98.
Barcelona have won two of their previous three European Cup/UEFA Champions League games when hosting Dynamo Kiev (L1), including 2-0 in the most recent such meeting in September 2009, under Pep Guardiola.
Dynamo Kiev are winless in their last 14 games against Spanish opponents in European competition (D7 L7), with their last victory coming back in March 1999 in the European Cup quarter-final second leg against Real Madrid (2-0).
Barcelona are unbeaten in their previous 22 games in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League (W16 D6), while they could win five group outings in a row for the first time since October 2017.
Dynamo Kiev’s last away victory in the UEFA Champions League came in November 2015 versus FC Porto (2-0) – they’ve failed to win any of their five away games in the competition since then, however four of them have ended level (L1).
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has scored in each of his previous two UEFA Champions League games against Dynamo Kiev, with the last of those goals coming back on 9th December 2009 – if he scores in this game, it will be his longest gap between scoring against the same opponent in the competition (3983 days).
Carlos de Pena and Viktor Tsygankov both scored on MD2 for Dynamo Kiev, while the last player to score in consecutive appearances for the club in the competition was Andriy Yarmolenko in September 2015.
Lionel Messi has scored 20 goals in his last 24 appearances for Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League, while he last netted in his first three games of a single campaign in the competition back in 2018-19.
Antoine Griezmann has scored just two goals in 10 UEFA Champions League appearances for Barcelona – the Frenchman is averaging a goal every 373 minutes for his current club in the competition, compared to one every 190 minutes for previous club Atlético de Madrid.
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