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Who: Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid
What: Spain’s La Liga
Where: Camp Nou, Barcelona
When: Tuesday astatine 9pm (20:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 17:00 GMT successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.
Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are looking to enactment down a marker successful their respective rubric aspirations arsenic the sides conscionable astatine Camp Nou for a midweek blockbuster.
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Barca beryllium precariously apical of La Liga by a constituent from second-place Real Madrid aft coming from behind to bushed Alaves astatine the play for a 4th consecutive league win.
Fourth-placed Atletico, who won 2-0 astatine location to Real Oviedo astatine the weekend, way Barcelona by 3 points.
Since losing 4-0 distant astatine Arsenal successful October, Atletico person present won 7 games successful a enactment successful each competitions.
And arsenic Real Madrid were held to a 3rd consecutive La Liga gully successful a 1-1 necktie astatine lowly Girona connected Sunday, Barcelona and Atletico volition anticipation that they tin instrumentality vantage of their rivals’ dip successful form.
Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates scoring against Alaves connected Saturday [Albert Gea/Reuters]Flick fumes contempt triumph implicit Alaves
Despite the 3-1 triumph implicit Alaves, Barcelona’s brag Hansi Flick appeared adjacent to tears aft the crippled and was consoled by winger Raphinha.
Flick aboriginal said helium was angered by immoderate of the officiating, including the referee’s determination to red-card 2 of his unit members during the game.
“I lacked communication. I asked the 4th authoritative what had happened, and helium told maine nothing,” Flick said aft the game, saying this was an “endemic problem”.
But Flick besides expressed different frustrations beyond the refereeing.
“We don’t person the power we had astatine times past season,” helium said. “We person to improve, and we tin amended galore things.”
Raphinha told reporters that “Flick believes that we are not playing astatine our best, and I agree”.
“Even so, the important happening contiguous was getting the win. We cognize we are not astatine our best, but we are working, and I americium definite we volition get backmost to playing our champion this season,” helium added.
🚨 Hansi Flick: “After the extremity of the match, Raphinha was telling maine the aforesaid happening I said past time: We volition improve. We volition beryllium overmuch amended successful the upcoming matches”.
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— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) November 29, 2025
Raphinha backmost connected song
A cardinal subordinate successful Barcelona’s home rubric treble past season, Raphinha looked similar his aged incisive aforesaid against Alaves successful his archetypal commencement successful 2 months since recovering from a hamstring injury.
He acceptable up 2 aboriginal goals, doubly racing successful down the defence connected the near broadside of the country earlier squaring passes for Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo to people successful the eighth and 26th minutes
Olmo added a 3rd extremity successful stoppage clip erstwhile helium worked a one-two passing operation with Yamal earlier firing home.
Flick praised Raphinha for his effort successful onslaught and defence, supra each due to the fact that his pressing was contagious among his teammates.
“Rafa is simply a subordinate who is dynamic,” Flick said. “We missed him.”
Raphinha applauds the fans arsenic helium leaves the transportation [Josep Lago/AFP]Atletico deed their stride
Alexander Sorloth’s first-half brace earned Atletico Madrid a 2-0 triumph implicit Real Oviedo connected Saturday, arsenic Diego Simeone’s broadside are present unbeaten successful 13 league matches aft an opening-day decision by Espanyol and way leaders Barca by 3 points.
Sorloth opened the scoring from adjacent scope aft 16 minutes and blasted location his 2nd 10 minutes later, with some goals laid connected by David Hancko.
After an inconsistent commencement to the campaign, Simeone’s broadside person recovered their groove.
“I deliberation present we’re doing well, not conscionable defensively but besides offensively,” goalkeeper Jan Oblak told DAZN.
“The information is, we’ve been playing well, but we person to support it up due to the fact that the past doesn’t matter. What matters is the future.”
Sorloth celebrates scoring against Real Oviedo astatine the Metropolitano Stadium [Javier Soriano/AFP]Simeone says breaking records meaningless without a title
Atletico person go the archetypal squad successful La Liga past to people archetypal successful each of their opening 14 matches; however, manager Simeone said helium cares astir trophies alternatively than records.
“I don’t connect that overmuch value to it,” Simeone said.
“I privation this would triumph you a title, but it won’t. It’s a compliment. Any further comments volition beryllium connected what we bash against Barca.
“We won a lucifer we had to win, and present comes a precise pugnacious one, a hard one, against an hostile we cognize precise good and who has tremendous potential, adjacent much truthful with the instrumentality of Pedri and Raphinha. We’ll look a precise pugnacious opponent.”
Head-to-head
The 2 clubs person faced each different 246 times, with Barca signaling 112 wins to Atletico’s 77, portion 57 of the games ended successful a draw.
Barcelona person got overmuch the amended of caller La Liga encounters, with the hosts seeking to grounds a seventh triumph successful the past 8 league matches.
But Atletico did triumph 2-1 astatine Barcelona successful December 2024, with goals from Rodrigo De Paul and Sorloth.
Barca fans successful the stands astatine Camp Nou [David Ramos/Getty Images]Barcelona’s squad news
The in-form midfielder, Fermin Lopez, volition miss a 2nd consecutive crippled owed to a calf problem, portion chap midfielder Gavi and goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen stay ruled retired done injury.
Defender Ronald Araujo missed the crippled against Alaves connected Saturday owed to unwellness and is apt to miss retired again.
Barca volition get a important boost, though, arsenic Pedri, Jules Kounde, and Frenkie de Jong are acceptable to instrumentality to action, portion Eric Garcia is expected to beryllium disposable contempt being forced disconnected astatine half-time against Alaves.
Barcelona’s predicted starting XI
Joan Garcia; Kounde, Eric Garcia, Cubarsi, Balde; de Jong, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Lewandowski
Atletico’s squad news
Midfielder Marcos Llorente misses his 3rd consecutive lucifer with a thigh injury, portion centre-back Robin Le Normand is improbable to diagnostic arsenic helium continues to retrieve from a genu problem.
Despite scoring a brace against Ovideo, Sorloth whitethorn person to beryllium contented to marque an interaction disconnected the seat arsenic Julian Alvarez is expected to pb the line.
Atletico’s predicted starting XI
Oblak; Molina, Gimenez, Hancko, Ruggeri; Cardoso; Simeone, Barrios, Koke, Baena; Alvarez
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