"It's a team I admired as a child, for the quality of their players and the way they play. They still do today; they're the biggest club in the world because they produce great players every year. It will be exciting to come face-to-face with them. We're really looking forward to it. Beating Barcelona is a huge challenge because their quality is immense, but our fans can be an advantage. It would be the most important opponent of my career."
"It's been a long time since we last played, and our fans are just as excited as we are. The home atmosphere will help us as always, and maybe even overwhelm Barcelona. Slavia's great advantage could come from the fans. The club and our fans would finally deserve to win a Champions League match, and if it were against Barcelona, it would be even sweeter."
Slavia Prague will host Barcelona in a UEFA Champions League match after more than a month without professional action. Barcelona need back-to-back wins to keep an outside chance of reaching the top eight, and players like Alejandro Balde understand the equation. Slavia defender Tomas Vlcek praised Barcelona's quality and called them the biggest club in the world for producing great players. Vlcek said facing Barcelona would be the biggest opponent of his career and emphasized that the home crowd could provide a crucial advantage to counter Slavia's lack of recent match fitness.
Read at Barca Universal
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