{"id":301968,"date":"2025-11-22T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301968\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:35:08","slug":"fc-barcelona-announce-squad-for-la-liga-match-against-athletic-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301968\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona announce squad for La Liga match against Athletic Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana make their long-awaited return to the Spotify Camp Nou with a La Liga game against Athletic Club, and Hansi Flick has called up the following 20 players for Saturday\u2019s clash:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Goalkeepers: 13. Joan Garcia, 25. Wojciech Szczesny, 31. Diego Kochen<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Defenders: 3. Alejandro Balde, 4. Ronald Araujo, 5. Pau Cubars\u00ed, 15. Andreas Christensen, 18. Gerard Mart\u00edn, 23. Jules Kounde, 24. Eric Garcia<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Midfielders: 16. Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez, 17. Marc Casad\u00f3, 20. Dani Olmo, 22. Marc Bernal, 27. Dro Fern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Forwards: 7. Ferran Torres, 9. Robert Lewandowski, 10. Lamine Yamal, 11. Raphinha, 28. Roony Bardghji<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The big news for this one is the return of Joan Garcia and Raphinha, who are finally cleared to play after missing two months with knee and hamstring injuries, respectively. There is some bad news, however, as Marcus Rashford is ruled out due to illness and joins Frenkie de Jong (suspension), Pedri (hamstring), Marc-Andr\u00e9 ter Stegen (back) and Gavi (knee) on the list of absentees for this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Predicted starting XI (4-3-3):<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia; Kounde, Cubars\u00ed, Eric, Balde; Ferm\u00edn, Casad\u00f3, Olmo; Yamal, Lewandowski, Ferran<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The match kicks off at 4.15pm CET\/WAT (Barcelona &amp; Nigeria), 3.15pm GMT (UK), 10.15am ET, 7.15am PT (USA), 8.45pm IST (India), 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 make their long-awaited return to the Spotify Camp Nou&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,11561,11563,596,85],"class_list":["post-301968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}