A chance for you to predict the score of tonight's UEFA Champions League group stage clash between FC Barcelona and Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bad news everyone! Neymar picked up a slight groin injury last night in training, and as such the Brazilian megastar will play no part in tonight's ultimately meaningless UEFA Champions League group stage closer against Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Fortunately, the injury isn't believed to be particularly serious, and there's a chance that Neymar may recover in time to face Deportivo La Coruna at the weekend; plus, as I've already mentioned, this game is meaningless. All the Blaugrana get for a win tonight is some additional prize money, plus the satisfaction of claiming another three points.
For the hosts, this match is far from meaningless -- and indeed depending on which way results go in Group E tonight, Bayer still harbour hopes of reaching the Round of 16 alongside Barcelona. In order to do so, they will need to better AS Roma's result at home to BATE Borisov -- and I'm not just talking about winning by a greater margin than the Italians, they literally need to secure more points than Roma tonight to progress.
Given that Roma are heavy favourites to overwhelm BATE Borisov, perhaps it's fair to say that Bayer's chances of reaching the knockout stages are slim -- but you know that Roger Schmidt's team will fight to the very end and will be hoping to at least go out on a high note by securing a result against the reigning European champions.
Will they be able to book a place in the knockout stages, or will a place in the UEFA Europa League be their reward for an inconsistent group stage performance? Predict the score of tonight's match by commenting with your prediction below. Best of luck!
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