Ferencvaros vs Barcelona UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 🖲
Ferencváros are winless in their last six meetings with Spanish clubs in all competitions (D4 L2); however, the Hungarian side have never lost at home to a Spanish team in any European competition (P7 W5 D2 L0).
Barcelona have won all of their previous five competitive meetings with Hungarian sides, including a 5-1 win at home to Ferencváros in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
Barcelona have won all four of their UEFA Champions League games this season, meaning they’ve made it past the opening round group stages in each of their last 19 campaigns in the competition.
Barcelona are looking to win each of their first five UEFA Champions League group stage games for the first time since the 2002-03 campaign, when they won all six in the first round group stages.
Since winning their first ever UEFA Champions League match 3-0 against Grasshopper Club Zurich in September 1995, Ferencváros are winless in each of their last nine games in the competition (D3 L6).
In their 10 total UEFA Champions League games, Ferencváros have kept one clean sheet (3-0 vs Grasshopper Club in 1995) and failed to score on just one occasion (0-4 v Ajax, December 1995). Of all teams to play at least 10 games in the competition, the Hungarian side have had the highest % of matches in which both teams have scored (80% - 8/10).
Ferencvaros’ five home UEFA Champions League matches have seen 23 goals scored (8 for, 15 against) at an average of 4.6 per game, the most of any team to play at least five home games in the competition.
In Barcelona’s 5-1 win over Ferencváros in October, they became the first side in UEFA Champions League history to see two players aged under 18 score in the same match (Ansu Fati and Pedri). Both players have since celebrated their 18th birthdays.
Lionel Messi’s absence from their 0-4 win over Dynamo Kiev was only the fourth of Barcelona’s last 43 games in the UEFA Champions League he hadn’t featured. Barcelona have won eight of their last nine Champions League games without Messi (D1) since losing 2-1 to Ajax in November 2013.
Martin Braithwaite scored twice in his first UEFA Champions League start for Barcelona against Dynamo Kiev – the last player to score in their first two starts in the competition for Barcelona was David Villa in 2010.
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