WELCOME TO THE MENDIZORROTZA STADIUM!!! The cozy home of Deportivo Alav\u00e9s in the Basque Country is the site of a midweek La Liga match between the hosts and back-to-back champions Barcelona, who come into this one looking for another win on their quest to finish the season with 100 points. This should be fun, and you\u2019re welcome to join us to follow and comment all the action. Vamos!<\/p>\n
Competition\/Round: 2025-26 La Liga, Matchday 36<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 9.30pm CET\/WAT (Barcelona), 8.30pm BST\/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3.30pm ET, 12.30pm PT (USA), 1am IST (India, Thursday)<\/p>\n
Venue: Estadio Mendizorrotza, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain<\/p>\n
Referee: Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez Mart\u00ednez<\/p>\n
VAR: Valent\u00edn Pizarro G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n
On TV: ESPN Deportes (USA), Premier Sports 2 (UK), SuperSport (Nigeria), Movistar (Spain), others<\/a><\/p>\n Online: ESPN+<\/a> (USA), Premier Sports Player (UK), FanCode (India), Movistar+ (Spain), others<\/a><\/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, watch the swearing. It\u2019s just unnecessary. Also, don\u2019t discuss illegal streaming links. Those who do it will be warned, and those who post links will be instantly banned. Finally, be 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 THE MENDIZORROTZA STADIUM!!! The cozy home of Deportivo Alav\u00e9s in the Basque Country is the site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,1771,667],"class_list":["post-22818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-match-threads","tag-barcelona-la-liga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818","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=22818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}