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Atletico Needs To Avoid Defeat While Youth Get A Chance For Barca In Champions League
UEFA Champions League: Atletico Madrid and FC Barcelona play their final UEFA Champions League group games on Wednesday and while Barcelona has little at stake in its match away to Royal Antwerp, Atletico battles it out for the leadership of its group with Lazio.
Barcelona is virtually assured of finishing top of Group H, and it would need an unlikely set of circumstances, with Shakhtar Donetsk winning in Porto and Barca losing to Antwerp, with a seven-goal swing in Shakhtar's favor, for that not to happen, reports Xinhua.
Xavi Hernandez has included eight players from the B-team in his squad. The coach initially left out several key players, such as Ronald Araujo, Ilkay Gundogan, Frenkie de Jong and Robert Lewandowski, but all except De Jong (who has a fever) were later included.
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