{"id":563486,"date":"2026-02-03T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563486\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:37:10","slug":"barcelona-squad-named-for-albacete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563486\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona squad named for Albacete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana play a huge Copa del Rey quarter-final against Albacete, and Hansi Flick has called up the following 21 players for Tuesday\u2019s clash:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Goalkeepers<\/strong>: 13. Joan Garcia, 25. Wojciech Szczesny, 31. Diego Kochen<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Defenders<\/strong>: 2. Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, 3. Alejandro Balde, 4. Ronald Araujo, 5. Pau Cubars\u00ed, 18. Gerard Mart\u00edn, 23. Jules Kounde, 24. Eric Garcia<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Midfielders<\/strong>: 16. Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, 17. Marc Casad\u00f3, 20. Dani Olmo, 21. Frenkie de Jong, 22. Marc Bernal, 43. Tommy Marqu\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Forwards<\/strong>: 7. Ferran Torres, 9. Robert Lewandowski, 10. Lamine Yamal, 14. Marcus Rashford, 19. Roony Bardghji<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bar\u00e7a will be without Raphinha for this one as the Brazilian has been given a week off to recover from a minor adductor issue, and he\u2019s ruled out along with the injured Pedri (hamstring), Gavi (knee) and Andreas Christensen (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Predicted starting XI (4-2-3-1)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Joan; Eric, Araujo, Mart\u00edn, Cancelo; De Jong, Bernal; Yamal, Ferm\u00edn, Rashford; Lewandowski<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The match kicks off at 9pm CET\/WAT (Barcelona &amp; Nigeria), 8pm GMT (UK), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 1.30am IST (India, Wednesday), and you can join us to follow and comment all the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>VISCA EL BAR\u00c7A!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana play a huge Copa del Rey quarter-final against Albacete,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":563487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[122306,12668,245920,245921,83365,135810,56242,5727,5728,47213,17372,48734,75871,1936,5729,54921,229826,7115,58841,3901,1219,79794,245919,4819,48735,71273,75872,59945,221,128,62,67,132,68,83059],"class_list":["post-563486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alejandro-balde","tag-andreas-christensen","tag-campos-de-sport-de-el-sardinero","tag-copa-del-rey","tag-dani-olmo","tag-diego-kochen","tag-eric-garcia","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-fermin-lopez","tag-ferran-torres","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-gavi","tag-gerard-martin","tag-getty-images","tag-hansi-flick","tag-joan-garcia","tag-joao-cancelo","tag-lamine-yamal","tag-marc-bernal","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-nigeria","tag-pedri","tag-racing-santander","tag-raphinha","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-ronald-araujo","tag-roony-bardghji","tag-santander","tag-soccer","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wojciech-szczesny"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563486","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=563486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}