FC Barcelona (9th, 0pts) vs Feyenoord (14th, 0pts)<\/p>\n
Competition\/Round: 2026-27 UEFA Champions League, League Phase, Matchday 1<\/p>\n
Barcelona Outs & Doubts: Roony Bardghji, Frenkie de Jong, Eric Garcia (out)<\/p>\n
Feyenoord Outs & Doubts: Jordan Bos, Jakub Moder, Bart Nieuwkoop, Gijs Smal (out), Thomas Beelen, Anis Hadj Moussa (doubt)<\/p>\n
Date\/Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 6.45pm CET (Barcelona), 5.45pm BST\/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 12.45pm ET, 9.45am PT (USA), 10.15pm IST (India)<\/p>\n
Venue: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain<\/p>\n
Referee: Sven Jablonski (GER)<\/p>\n
VAR: Bastian Dankert (GER)<\/p>\n
How to watch on TV: TUDN (USA), TNT Sports 3 (UK), SONY TEN 1 (India), SuperSport (Nigeria), Movistar (Spain), others<\/a><\/p>\n How to watch online: Paramount+<\/a> (USA), HBO Max (UK), Sony LIV (India), Movistar+ (Spain), others<\/a><\/p>\n Following a dominant win away to Valencia to continue their perfect start to the season, Barcelona begin a new European journey as the Catalans welcome Dutch giants Feyenoord for their Champions League debut at the Greatest Stadium on Earth on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n Bar\u00e7a come into this one looking for a successful start to their European campaign, with three points in the opener very important in what should be a tough league phase for the Blaugrana.<\/p>\n PSG have shown in the last two years that success in the opening stage isn\u2019t exactly crucial for title contenders, but Bar\u00e7a\u2019s busy and difficult domestic schedule makes it imperative to secure a Top 8 finish and avoid two extra Playoff games.<\/p>\n Hansi Flick\u2019s side have big hopes for Europe this season, and with good reason: this is the best and deepest squad of Flick\u2019s tenure, and the arrival of Rodri could be a true game-changer as Bar\u00e7a look to end their decade-long European drought.<\/p>\n Feyenoord have a good squad with talented young midfielders and forwards, and former Bar\u00e7a player Gio Van Bronckhorst is their coach. They\u2019ve been inconsistent at the back and struggled in the second halves of their Eredivise games so far this season, so the home team should be able to establish their superiority throughout the game and secure a good win to begin their European journey.<\/p>\n Barcelona (4-3-3): Joan; Kounde, Cubars\u00ed, Christensen, Cancelo; Ferm\u00edn, Rodri, Pedri; Yamal, Raphinha, Gordon<\/p>\n Feyenoord (4-3-3): Ernst; Read, St. Juste, Watanabe, M\u00e1rmol; Vanhoutte, Zechiel, Targhalline; Diarra, Ferri, Valente<\/p>\n Feyenoord\u2019s defense has been suspect to start the season, so Bar\u00e7a\u2019s flying attack should be able to continue their hot streak and secure a good win in this one: 3-0 to the home team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona (9th, 0pts) vs Feyenoord (14th, 0pts) Competition\/Round: 2026-27 UEFA Champions League, League Phase, Matchday 1 Barcelona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[251783,4218,403,99],"class_list":["post-841587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-match-previews","tag-barcelona-uefa-champions-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}