Barca coach Pep Guardiola had warned his side about the threat of Shakhtar prior to kick-off, revealing he did not have a "good feeling" about the prospect of playing Mircea Lucescu's outfit.

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Veteran Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu is cut from the same cloth as his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger in his firm belief in keeping the ball on the ground and attacking in fluent short-passing moves.

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Mircea Geoana, its foreign minister, has explained that, as a former ambassador to Washington who knows American politics well, he never remembered coming under such pressure from the United States over a single issue.

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