Barcelona V Bayer Leverkusen: Live Score, Analysis, Recap

Never say never.

Barcelona will take a 3-1 lead into the second leg of their Champions League Last 16 tie against Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday. The return leg is at the Camp Nou, so any sane person would predict Barcelona to go through to the quarterfinals.

But as Arsenal almost showed on Tuesday, sanity is relative in football.

Can Leverkusen pull off a shock in Catalonia? It's doubtful, but you never know.

Kickoff is set for 2:45 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. We'll start live updates around 2:30. See you then.

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Lineups

Barcelona: Victor Valdes, Javier Mascherano, Gerard Pique, Adriano, Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Cesc Fabregas, Lionel Messi, Pedro.

Subs: Seydou Keita, Jose Manuel Pinto, Cristian Tello, Marc Muniesa, Marc Bartra, Sergi Roberto, Isaac Cuenca

Bayer Leverkusen: Bernd Leno, Ömer Toprak, Daniel Schwaab, Michal Kadlec, Gonzalo Castro, Simon Rolfes, Stefan Reinartz, Renato Augusto, Lars Bender, Eren Derdiyok, Stefan Kießling

Subs: Manuel Friedrich, Fabian Giefer, Bastian Oczipka, Michael Ortega, Andre Schürrle, Karim Bellarabi, Erik Zenga

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Goals

Barcelona: Lionel Messi (25', 42', 49', 58', 84'); Cristian Tello (55', 62')