The Riaz Air Metropolitano Stadium is set to host a high-profile clash as Barcelona travel to face Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the top-of-the-table clash of La Liga matchday 30, this Saturday, in the first of three consecutive encounters between the two sides this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Spanish Football Federation announced, in an official statement on Friday, the appointment of international referee Mateu Busquets Ferrer to officiate this highly anticipated clash.<\/p>\n
The Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo noted that this will be the second match he has refereed for Barcelona during the current 2025\/2026 season.<\/p>\n
The first match was against Rayo Vallecano and ended in a 1-1 draw, a game which saw technical issues with the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system, resulting in it not being used for most of the first half.<\/p>\n
In total, the referee has officiated six La Liga matches involving Barcelona, in which the Catalan side have recorded four wins and one draw (excluding the Rayo Vallecano match).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The last match he refereed this season was the postponed fixture against Osasuna, which the Catalan side won 3-0.<\/p>\n
As for Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, this will be the sixth time Busquets Ferrer has refereed a match for the Rojiblancos in various competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under his stewardship, the Madrid side have recorded one win and one draw, alongside three defeats; the most notable of these matches were the 1-1 draw against Real Madrid in last season\u2019s capital derby and the 3-0 victory over Valencia at the Mestalla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Riaz Air Metropolitano Stadium is set to host a high-profile clash as Barcelona travel to face Atl\u00e9tico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111144,147462,1998,85,46,18617,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-373778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-atletico-madrid-vs-barcelona","10":"tag-barcelona","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-laliga","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}