Rosengård lost 1-2 away to Bayern Munich in the Champions League opener last week.
At the same time, Barcelona won 9-0 at home against Benfica.
- Everyone is constantly moving, everyone wants the ball constantly, it's clap clap game.
They score goals in many different ways and are always playable, that's what will be a big challenge for us - to stop them when they find new ways all the time, notes Olivia Schough.
Teammate Jessica Wik believes that the Spanish big club offers completely different opposition than the one Rosengård faces on a daily basis.
"Other situation"
- We are more underdogs in this situation, which we are not used to.
In the women's league, we always have a lot of pressure on us to win every match.
Here, it will be a bit of a struggle to get out of a disadvantage, which is a different situation for us, says Wik.
In order to stop goal-threatening Barcelona, who won the Champions League in 2021 and were in the final last year, the underdog Rosengård has focused more than usual on the defensive.
- Maybe it's not what we've worked on the most during the season, so now there's been a lot of training with defensive play and what we should do when we win the ball, that we don't get so stressed and that we can breathe a little too.
Even though we face them, we must be brave and believe in ourselves.
We know that they are a very good team, but we are also good, says Wik.
In addition, the newly crowned Swedish champion hopes that the support from a packed Malmö IP, barely 5000 tickets have been sold, will lift the team.
And that Barcelona should not thrive on the artificial turf.
- Maybe they don't think it's crazy fun to come here and drive on artificial grass.
We are used to playing here, so it is as always that we feel more secure here and they feel more secure on their home ground.
So I definitely think we can benefit from that..