{"id":78540,"date":"2026-08-31T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/78540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:34:59","slug":"barcelona-vs-rayo-vallecano-la-liga-live-score-and-match-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/78540\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona vs. Rayo Vallecano\u2014La Liga: Live Score and Match Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"9u\">Barcelona round off the third week of La Liga fixtures with a visit from Rayo Vallecano on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"9z\">Hansi Flick\u2019s back-to-back top-flight champions have made a perfect start to the new campaign, rattling in seven goals without reply. Barcelona don\u2019t have a senior striker and Lamine Yamal is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/hansi-flick-everyone-worried-lamine-yamal-should-they-be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enduring a mini existential crisis<\/a>, but things have started pretty well.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"a4\">The same cannot be said for Rayo Vallecano. Last season\u2019s Conference League finalists lost their talismanic manager I\u00f1igo P\u00e9rez to Villarreal over the summer, sold off two key defenders to the Premier League and were even forced to indefinitely move out of their stadium after an outbreak of Legionnaires\u2019 disease in the area. The club\u2019s only two permanent recruits have cost a combined $2.4 million. Even this cash-strapped iteration of Barcelona don\u2019t have to be so tight with the purse strings.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"a9\">Set against this bleak backdrop, it\u2019s perhaps unsurprising that Rayo have only been able to muster a single point from their first two league games. It would be an almighty surprise to see that tally bolstered against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live Match TrackerPlay-by-PlayMatch MomentumMatch StatsLineupsMatch Summary<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" preventdefault:click=\"\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\" on:pointerenter=\"q-BoGJWvpc.js#s_1NOcOpHWmT0\" on:touchstart=\"q-H9q8BpPo.js#s_R8AiGTDeM28\" on:focus=\"q-BYEsQQaF.js#s_gxiTM6qMMu8\" on:click=\"q-CNwNFlTm.js#s_lDqay9E5m5g[0]\" q:id=\"d0\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona round off the third week of La Liga fixtures with a visit from Rayo Vallecano on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-78540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78540","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=78540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}