The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana play their first home game of the season against Valencia at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, and Hansi Flick has called up the following 21 players for Sunday\u2019s clash:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers<\/strong>: 13. Joan Garc\u00eda, 25. Wojciech Szczesny, 31. Diego Kochen<\/p>\n Defenders<\/strong>: 4. Ronald Araujo, 5. Pau Cubars\u00ed, 15. Andreas Christensen, 18. Gerard Mart\u00edn, 23. Jules Kounde, 24. Eric Garc\u00eda, 26. Jofre Torrents<\/p>\n Midfielders<\/strong>: 8. Pedri, 16. Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, 17. Marc Casad\u00f3, 20. Dani Olmo, 22. Marc Bernal<\/p>\n Forwards<\/strong>: 7. Ferran Torres, 9. Robert Lewandowski, 11. Raphinha, 14. Marcus Rashford, 28. Roony Bardghji, 29. Toni Fern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n There\u2019s some big team news for this one, so let\u2019s get through it. First, the bad: Bar\u00e7a are missing two key starters in Lamine Yamal (groin) and Frenkie de Jong (glute) who picked up injuries during the international break, while Gavi (knee) remains out along with Alejandro Balde (hamstring) and Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen (back).<\/p>\n The good news is the return of Marc Bernal, who is named in a matchday squad for the first time in over a year after his recovery from knee surgery, and Roony Bardghji finally gets the clearance to be named in the squad for the first time since being signed from Copenhagen in the summer.<\/p>\n Predicted starting XI (4-2-3-1)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Garcia; Kounde, Cubars\u00ed, Christensen, Mart\u00edn; Casad\u00f3, Pedri; Raphinha, Ferm\u00edn, Rashford; Lewandowski<\/p>\n The match kicks off at 9pm CET (Barcelona), 8pm BST\/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 12.30am IST (India, Monday), and you can join us to follow and comment all the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana play their first home game of the season against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1396,2618,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-226139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-barcelona-la-liga","9":"tag-barcelona-team-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115202658417475770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}