Dortmund, Barcelona's first challenge in the Champions League

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They face this Tuesday in one of the stellar matches of the first day.

Barcelona starts on Tuesday in Dortmund against Borussia the challenge of raising a new Champions League, a continental trophy that has resisted him since 2015 and that Captain Lionel Messi has once again in the spotlight.
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"Obviously I would love to win the Champions League because it has been a long time since I won and I think we should win the Champions League again as a club, and on a personal level I would love to win another one," Messi warned in an interview with Sport newspaper.

Messi, who has not yet debuted with his team, received a medical discharge for his right twin muscle on Monday and could have his first minutes Tuesday in Germany.

The Argentine star completed his first training with the group on Sunday and repeated this Monday, but it remains to be seen what his coach Ernesto Valverde will decide on his lineup.

"We will decide tomorrow (if he plays)," said Barca coach Monday at the press conference prior to the meeting, before adding that "a few days ago we were not very clear, but the last training is finishing well and getting rid of the head pains. "
Lionel messi

Lionel messi
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The one that seems safe in Germany is the Uruguayan gunner Luis Suárez, who could not have a better return to the competition after a month in the dry dock due to a muscular injury.
The Ansu Fati sensation

Suarez doubled on Saturday in the 5-2 win against Valencia in just half an hour on the pitch. The 'Gunman' on Tuesday faces again the challenge of scoring out of the Camp Nou in the Champions League, since the Uruguayan has not seen a door again in the continental competition away from home since he scored in September 2015 against Rome.

"Suarez is very insistent. In other games he was very close and we are clear that he will keep trying," Valverde said.

One of the unknowns of the meeting for Barcelona is whether Valverde will dare to accompany Suárez and Antoine Griezmann with the young Ansu Fati, the last sensation of Barça, who at 16 has dazzled the Barca fans.

The canterano opened the scoring on Saturday after just two minutes of play and then gave the assistance of the second goal, but the Barca coach asks to go step by step with the young man. Nestled in a complicated group F together with Inter Milan and Slavia in Prague, in addition to Borussia, Barcelona feels the urgency of raising the 'Orejona' again, especially after the last two eliminations resulting from two humiliating comebacks.

In April 2018, Roma took Barça in the quarterfinals after tracing an adverse 4-1, while last year Barça squandered a three-goal lead in the semifinals against Liverpool (3-0, 0-4), future champion

Barcelona now starts a new European season seeking to leave those failures behind and begins before a German team, which is marching in the second position of the German league just one point behind Leipzig.

Dortmund faces the game full of morals after beating Bayern Leverkusen 4-0 on Saturday. "Saturday's game has given us confidence," Borussia captain Marco Reus said Monday, for which Barcelona will have to "know how to suffer in defense and be brave in the game forward."

The captain of the German team is one of the main offensive tricks of the German team along with the Spanish Paco Alcácer, who counts his matches by goals. Barcelona's former striker, Reus and Jadon Sancho have scored ten of the thirteen goals scored by the club in the German championship.