FC Barcelona women to meet FC Twente again in Champions League last sixteen
The FC Barcelona Women’s team have learned that they’ll be meeting the Dutch side FC Twente in the UEFA Champions League for the second year in a row.
The first leg of the last-16 tie will be played in Barcelona on November 9 or 10, and the return will be in Holland one week later, on November 16 or 17.
The teams met in the same stage of the 2015/16 edition of the competition, with Barça winning both legs, 1-0, thanks to goals each time from Olga Garcia.
The Catalans made it through their first round match with a 5-1 aggregate defeat of Minsk, setting things up nicely with a 3-0 win in Belarus before finishing off the job, 2-1, on some very, very wet home turf.
The side from Enschende first had to get through a qualifying group that also included Ferencváros (Hungary), Konak Belediyespor (Turkey), and Hibernians (Malta), and then, like Barça, won their first knockout match, 5-1 on aggregate, in their case against Sparta Prague.
Xavi Llorens is aiming to better last season’s impressive run, when Barça were edged out by a solitary PSG goal after beating Twente to reach the quarter-finals.
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