Monaco – Barcelona Preview

Monaco hosts Barcelona at the Stade Louis-II in a fixture from the first round of the Champions League’s league stage. Stay with us and our free soccer predictions for today for this match. Let’s go!

Monaco returned to the Champions League after a very good Ligue 1 campaign in 2023/24. Les Monegasques found the right manager with Adi Hutter and their results have been good.

Under Hutter, Monaco are playing an exciting attacking football, but they could be a bit more conservative against Barca. It means that using counter-attack would be a real option for the French team. Here players like Minamino, Akliouche and Golovin could be key.

Last weekend Monaco showed their strength in the Ligue 1 – they celebrated a 3-0 win against Auxerre away from home. Kehrer and Vanderson scored in the first half while Denis Zakaria finished the job.

Barcelona are looking like a completely new team since the arrival of the manager Hansi Flick. The Catalans are merciless in La Liga where they started with five wins in the first five rounds. The most important thing is that Barcelona are playing a very good football at the moment. The 4-1 win against Girona last weekend was another proof for that.

Flick has problems with some injured players, though. The new signing Dani Olmo got injured against Girona while De Jong, Araujo, Christensen and Gavi remain sidelined.

Because Fermin Lopez has problems as well, most likely Ferran Torres will replace the injured Olmo in the line-up. It means that Raphinha will play at Olmo’s position while Ferran will move to the left wing.

Lamine Yamal continues to impress for Barcelona. The youngster scored a brace during the win against Girona.

That’s the free soccer predictions for today for the Champions League fixture between Monaco and Barcelona. We wish you good luck with this one!