The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana travel to València for their second La Liga game of the season against Levante, and Hansi Flick has called up the following 22 players for Saturday’s clash:
Goalkeepers: Iñaki Peña, Joan Garcia, Diego Kochen
Defenders: Alejandro Balde, Ronald Araujo, Pau Cubarsí, Andreas Christensen, Jules Kounde, Eric García, Jofre Torrents
Midfielders: Gavi, Pedri, Fermín López, Marc Casadó, Dani Olmo, Dro Fernández, Toni Fernández
Forwards: Ferran Torres, Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal, Raphinha, Marcus Rashford
Barça get their striker back for this one as Robert Lewandowski receives the medical green light after missing the season opener due to a hamstring issue, but they will be without Frenkie de Jong who doesn’t make the trip for personal reasons. Wojciech Szczesny, Gerard Martín and Roony Bardghji have not been registered yet, and are forced to sit this one out. Marc-André ter Stegen (back) and Marc Bernal (knee) are out due to injury, while Oriol Romeu and Héctor Fort are no longer in the coach’s plans and are also left out.
Predicted starting XI (4-2-3-1):
Garcia; Eric, Araujo, Cubarsí, Balde; Gavi, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Ferran
The match kicks off at 9.30pm CET (Barcelona), 8.30pm BST/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3.30pm ET, 12.3pam PT (USA), 1am IST (India, Sunday), and you can join us to follow and comment all the action.
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