Barcelona will go on the road to England on Tuesday night to play Manchester City in a mouthwatering Champions League tie at the Etihad Stadium. A few seasons back Barcelona were widely considered near-unbeatable, however, this season it is Manchester City who have been taking many plaudits, scoring hat-fulls of goals throughout their current campaign, and even defeating Bayern Munich in Germany.
Today's massive game will be one that City will want to win, to take an advantage to the Nou Camp for the return second leg, which will be played in an intimidating atmosphere in front of tens of thousands of Barca fans.
The City-Barcelona game will kick off today at 7.45 p.m. GMT (2.45 p.m. EST) and can be watched online through live stream – free for subscribers – via the link provided below.
This amazingly is Manchester City's first ever knock out game in the Champions League. In all previous seasons they have disappointed and failed to get out of the group stages. However, there is something about the team this year that is far more confident and dangerous, and Barcelona will know they are coming up against one of the best teams in Europe tonight.
Barcelona have the history on their side though, and will be by far the more experienced team. That so often is the difference in close Champions League match ups, and that experience could get them past this difficult hurdle.
However, this City team will be fearless, having defeated reigning champions Bayern Munich 3-2 in Bayern – of course the German side defeated Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate last year in the Champions League.
Tonight's game will kick off at 7.45 p.m. GMT and can be watched online through live stream via a free trial by clicking here.
