Barcelona will face Valencia on Sunday for the fourth LaLiga match of the 2025-26 season after the workforce coached by Hansi Flick gained the opening two matches after which drew away in opposition to Rayo Vallecano as Barcelona are nonetheless ready for the ultimate inexperienced gentle to play at their residence stadium, the newly renovated Spotify Camp Nou. After taking part in for 2 years on the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, the brand new Camp Nou was initially attributable to be prepared in November 2024 with a restricted capability of fifty,000 folks, however then the work slowed down and the Blaugrana completed the 2024-25 season on the different stadium. Barcelona performed the three opening matches of the 2025-26 LaLiga season away to get every part prepared for September 2025, however the Spanish giants are nonetheless ready for the ultimate permission. For that reason, they may now play the primary residence match of the season on the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the place the ladies’s workforce normally play the house video games. Nevertheless, the stadium can solely host 6,000 followers and LaLiga have a minimal stadium capability requirement of 8,000 seats for matches, however Barcelona had been granted an exception.
Methods to watch Barcelona vs. Valencia, odds
- Date: Sunday, Sep. 14 | Time: 3 p.m. ET
- Location: Estadi Johan Cruyff — Barcelona, Spain
- Dwell stream: ESPN+
- Odds: Barcelona -364; Draw +500; Valencia +864
Flick not proud of Spain for Yamal’s damage
Flick will cope with the absence of Barcelona star Lamine Yamal, who will miss the match in opposition to Valencia after “experiencing discomfort within the pubic space and is presently unable to coach or play,” the membership introduced on Saturday forward of Sunday’s match. Flick spoke concerning the damage of the 18-year previous within the pre-match press convention and confirmed his frustration on how he was handled in the course of the worldwide break by the Spanish nationwide workforce and coach Luis de la Fuente/
“Lamine goes to the nationwide workforce with ache, did not practice, had painkillers to play, they had been three objectives forward in each match, and he performed 79 and 73 minutes. Between the matches, he did not practice. This isn’t taking good care of gamers. Spain have the perfect workforce on the planet, in each place they’re unbelievably good. I’m actually unhappy about this example. I by no means spoke with De la Fuente, possibly my Spanish shouldn’t be good, his English shouldn’t be good, so it is a downside.”
Barcelona additionally introduced that “his return to coaching will rely on how his situation evolves,” and because of this remains to be not clear if Yamal will have the ability to be again forward of the Champions League’s opening recreation in opposition to Newcastle that may happen on Thursday later this week.
