{"id":54401,"date":"2025-09-14T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weisetech.dev\/fc-barcelona-noticias\/en\/fc-barcelona-vs-valencia-aiming-for-the-first-home-win_314675_102\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:33:05","slug":"fc-barcelona-vs-valencia-aiming-for-the-first-home-win_314675_102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelonanoticias.com\/en\/laliga\/fc-barcelona-vs-valencia-aiming-for-the-first-home-win_314675_102.html","title":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona vs Valencia: aiming for the first home win in La Liga"},"content":{"rendered":"
FC Barcelona<\/strong> returns to action in LaLiga 2025\/26<\/strong> this Sunday against Valencia<\/strong> (9:00 PM CEST). Hansi Flick’s<\/strong> team will have to play their first home game of the season at the Johan Cruyff Stadium, while awaiting the resolution of the operating licenses for the Spotify Camp Nou<\/strong> in the coming days. For the fourth matchday, the ‘Azulgrana’ team arrives with four significant absences due to injury.<\/p> During the first break of the 25\/26 season, Lamine Yamal<\/strong> and Frenkie de Jong<\/strong> ended up with muscle problems after traveling with Spain and the Netherlands, respectively. Hopefully, both will be available next Thursday for the Champions League debut against Newcastle. They are joined by Gavi<\/strong> and Alejandro Balde<\/strong>, the former sidelined since before Matchday 3 against Rayo.<\/p> The full-back, however, was injured in training while the internationals were with their national teams. The other absence, the only one of long duration, is Marc Andr\u00e9 ter-Stegen<\/strong>, who will be out for at least four months after undergoing back surgery. Valencia, on the other hand, arrives in Catalonia with the full squad.<\/p> Beyond the doubts in assembling the starting XI, Flick’s Bar\u00e7a arrives confident in getting a good result against the ‘ch\u00e9’ team on Sunday. Valencia has not won on Catalan soil since 2015\/16<\/a>, and in their last nine visits, they could only salvage a couple of draws (2-2) in 18\/19 and 20\/21. <\/p> In addition, in 24\/25, the ‘cul\u00e9s’ crushed Carlos Corber\u00e1n’s team both in La Liga (7-1) and in Copa (0-5), although the Mestalla team had a notable improvement in their game and performance<\/strong> during the second half of the season, just after the arrival of the 42-year-old coach.<\/p> It is not easy to finish in twelfth place in the standings after scoring just 12 points in the first half of the season<\/strong>. Valladolid, in fact, finished tied with the ‘bats’ at the bottom of the table in the first half of the previous championship, but could never leave this position and went down to Segunda with just 16 points, 30 less than Valencia (46).<\/p> Therefore, beyond the differences between both teams, Bar\u00e7a must be very careful against Corber\u00e1n’s team, a specialist team in reducing spaces thanks to a very compact block (4-2-3-1)<\/strong> that knows very well how to use its weapons to hurt rivals, on paper, clearly superior.<\/p>
Barcelona wants to extend its streak against Valencia in La Liga<\/h2>