Barcelona and Aston Villa lock horns for the first time in the Champions League on Tuesday evening at the Spotify Camp Nou Stadium, with the pair facing off on Matchday 4 of the league phase.
While the Villans are poised for a novel experience in Catalonia, their manager, Unai Emery, is all too familiar with the perils that Camp Nou so often brings to visiting managers. The 54-year-old is taking on Barça with his sixth different club, aiming to improve a wretched record.
His Villa team have at least overcome a torrid start to the 2026–27 campaign, losing just one of their previous nine outings—a 3–0 defeat at Bournemouth in the Carabao Cup fourth round. They’re one of five perfect teams in this competition, having beaten Club Brugge, Fenerbahçe and Viking.
Barcelona thus represent a significant step-up in quality for Emery’s side, even if Hansi Flick’s La Liga champions suffered back-to-back defeats before thrashing Deportivo Alavés 6–1. Barça were eventually overwhelmed by Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes, then outwitted by José Mourinho’s Real Madrid in El Clásico.
Before losing to the back-to-back champions, Flick’s side thrashed Feyenoord and Galatasaray to get their continental campaign off to the perfect start.
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