Goal: Whither Barcelona?

With Barcelona needing to overcome a 2-0 deficit against visiting Milan on Tuesday to remain in the Champions League, four Times soccer writers took brief looks at the state of the team as it stands on the brink of elimination.

Champions League

This Week's Games

All times Eastern
Tuesday
Milan at Barcelona, 3:45 p.m., Fox Soccer (Milan won first leg, 2-0)

Galatasaray at Schalke, 3:45 p.m., MSG+ (First leg, 1-1)

Wednesday

Arsenal at Bayern Munich, 3:45 p.m., Fox Soccer (First leg: Bayern, 3-1)

Porto at Malaga, 3:45 p.m., MSG+ (First leg: Porto, 1-0)

How did the team get to this place? What can it do to get out of it?

Sam Borden suggests there's nothing wrong with the club that a little Neymar wouldn't fix. Andrew Das writes that the long road that brought Barça to this point might be part of the problem, and Andrew Keh notes that while the home team desperately needs goals — plural — on Tuesday, its reliance on one player to provide them could make getting enough difficult.

And Jack Bell takes the glass-is-more-than-half-full approach: Problems? What problems?

Read all four opinions here and then come back to share your thoughts, your Barça critiques and your predictions.