{"id":24362,"date":"2026-05-16T08:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:38:19","slug":"barcelona-vs-real-betis-predicted-xi-for-hansi-flicks-side-in-final-home-game-of-the-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24362\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona vs. Real Betis: Predicted XI for Hansi Flick’s side in final home game of the campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barcelona<\/a> head coach Hansi Flick<\/a> will ring the changes for Sunday’s La Liga clash with Real Betis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Catalan outfit saw an 11-game winning run in the league come to an end on Wednesday night, with the 2025-26 champions suffering a 1-0 defeat to Alaves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is possible that only Marcus Rashford<\/a> could keep his spot in the starting side for this match.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Joan Garcia, Eric Garcia, Ronald Araujo, Gerard Martin, Joao Cancelo, Pedri, Frenkie de Jong, Gavi, Fermin Lopez and Ferran Torres are all in line for spots in the XI.<\/p>\n

Robert Lewandowski<\/a> could play for the final time at Camp Nou as a Barcelona player on Sunday, with the experienced striker’s contract due to expire at the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Torres should be given the nod from the first whistle, but Lewandowski will be seen at some point.<\/p>\n

One positive did come from the defeat to Alaves, with no players suffering any injury problems, but Lamine Yamal remains out with a hamstring issue.<\/p>\n

Raphinha will return to the squad after suspension and is expected to feature off the bench, with the Brazilian’s fitness being managed ahead of the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Barcelona possible starting lineup:<\/p>\n

J Garcia; E Garcia, Araujo, Martin, Cancelo; Pedri, De Jong; Rashford, Gavi, Fermin; F Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona head coach Hansi Flick will ring the changes for Sunday’s La Liga clash with Real Betis. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[320,322,313,315,318,321,319,100,316,109,314,324,323,317],"class_list":{"0":"post-24362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seville","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-epl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-olympics","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-rugby","17":"tag-seville","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-sports-mole","20":"tag-teams","21":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362","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=24362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}