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Barca's final shot to save troubled season and Setien

Football - La Liga Santander - Real Valladolid v FC Barcelona - Estadio Jose Zorrilla, Valladolid, Spain - July 11, 2020. Barcelona's Arturo Vidal celebrates scoring their first goal with Lionel Messi. [REUTERS/Sergio Perez]

If Barcelona have been weighed down by the burden of expectation in recent years in the Champions League, they should feel freer than ever ahead of today's last 16, second leg against Napoli. 

Few expect an easy passage into the quarter-finals and if they get there, even fewer expect them to survive against Bayern Munich, the tournament's most convincing team so far, who will surely finish the job against Chelsea in their last-16 tie. 

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