WELCOME TO CAMP NOU!!! The Greatest Stadium on Earth is the site of a huge Catalan derby between visitors Espanyol and La Liga leaders Barcelona, who come into this one looking for three more points to stay in full control of the title race. This should be all kinds of fun, and you\u2019re welcome to join us to follow and comment all the action.\u00a0Vamos!<\/p>\n
LINEUPS<\/p>\n
BARCELONA<\/p>\n
Starting XI: Joan; Araujo, Cubars\u00ed, Mart\u00edn, Balde; Eric, Pedri; Yamal, Gavi, Ferm\u00edn; Ferran (4-2-3-1)<\/p>\n
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Substitutes: Szczesny (GK), Aller (GK), Cort\u00e9s, Kounde, Espart, Cancelo, Casad\u00f3, De Jong, Olmo, Roony, Rashford, Lewandowski<\/p>\n
ESPANYOL<\/p>\n
Starting XI: Dmitrovic; El Hilali, Calero, Cabrera, Romero; Lozano, Urko; Dolan, Exp\u00f3sito, Ngonge; Garc\u00eda (4-2-3-1)<\/p>\n
Substitutes: Fortu\u00f1o (GK), Trist\u00e1n (GK), S\u00e1nchez, Roberto, Milla, Salinas, Terrats, Rubio, Jofre, Pickel, Roca<\/p>\n
MATCH INFO<\/p>\n
Competition\/Round: 2025-26\u00a0La Liga, Matchday 31<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Saturday, April 4, 2026, 6.30pm CET\/WAT (Barcelona), 5.30pm GMT (UK & Nigeria), 12.30pm ET, 9.30am PT (USA), 10pm IST (India, Sunday)<\/p>\n
Venue:\u00a0Camp Nou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain<\/p>\n
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Referee: Alejandro Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n
VAR: Valent\u00edn Pizarro G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n
HOW TO WATCH<\/p>\n
On TV: ESPN Deportes (USA), Premier Sports 2 (UK), SuperSport (Nigeria), others<\/a><\/p>\n Online:\u00a0ESPN+<\/a>\u00a0(USA), Premier Sports Player (UK), FanCode (India), DAZN (Spain),\u00a0others<\/a><\/p>\n Matchday Thread Rules<\/p>\n We don\u2019t have a lot of rules here, but there are a few things to keep in mind when joining our matchday threads:<\/p>\n Even if the referee sucks or we lose the game,\u00a0watch the swearing. It\u2019s just unnecessary. Also,\u00a0don\u2019t discuss illegal streaming links. Those who do it will be warned,\u00a0and those who post links will be instantly banned. Finally,\u00a0be nice to each other. This is a Barcelona community and we don\u2019t need to offend one another.<\/p>\n Have fun with the game! Forever and ever, no matter the competition, VISCA EL BAR\u00c7A!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELCOME TO CAMP NOU!!! The Greatest Stadium on Earth is the site of a huge Catalan derby between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,330,1493,1491,726,93,223,931,732,1490,301,1495,729,725,1494,731,17,1489,1492],"class_list":{"0":"post-1928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-camp-nou","10":"tag-cancelo","11":"tag-de-jong","12":"tag-el-hilali","13":"tag-espanyol","14":"tag-fc-barcelona","15":"tag-fermin-lopez","16":"tag-ferran","17":"tag-gk","18":"tag-la-liga","19":"tag-lewandowski","20":"tag-ngonge","21":"tag-nigeria","22":"tag-olmo","23":"tag-rashford","24":"tag-spain","25":"tag-villarreal-cf","26":"tag-yamal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}