Barcelona – Espanyol play this Saturday December 31 for the fifteenth day of Santander League of Spain, following the break for the 2022 World Cup. Find out what time the game starts, where and how to watch it, among other details. Watch the broadcast of the meeting here.
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Barcelona 1-1 Espanyol live
The azulgrana team arrives at this resumption of the Spanish championship as the leader, with a two-point advantage over the second, Real Madrid, who visit Real Valladolid on Friday.
In Saturday’s derby, Barça will be absent from their Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, suspended three games for his expulsion in the last duel before the World Cup break.
WHAT TIME DOES BARCELONA VS ESPANYOL PLAY?
07:00 hours – Mexico
08:00 am – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
09:00 am – Venezuela, Bolivia
Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay
2:00 p.m. – Spain, Germany, Italy, France
WHERE TO SEE BARCELONA VS ESPANYOL
The Catalan derby between Barcelona and Espanyol will be broadcast on TV through the DIRECTV Sports signal and Movistar LaLiga (Spain), while DirecTV GO (DGO) and Fútbol Libre TV are options to follow it online via streaming.
In Qatar, Lewandowski lost in the round of 16 once morest France and now he will have to wait to resume competition with the Catalan team.
In that game on matchday fourteen, Barça, despite playing with ten, was able to beat Osasuna and Xavi Hernández is now confident that his team can continue the good dynamics despite the six weeks that have elapsed since the last game.
The Barcelona coach has to decide who occupies that Lewandowski position in the eleven. Ferrán Torres, Ansu Fati and Memphis Depay might do it, but also the French winger Ousmane Dembelé, runner-up in the World Cup with his team and who returned to team training on Monday, so he might be once morest Espanyol on Saturday, which is sixteenth and fight for permanence.
PROBABLE ALIGNMENTS, BARCELONA – ESPANYOL
- Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Balde, Christensen, Eric Garcia, Sergi Roberto; Busquets, Gavi, Pedri; Dembélé, Ferrán Torres and Ansu.
- Espanyol: Lecomte; Óscar Gil, Calero, Cabrera, Oliván; Expósito, Souza, Darder; Puado, Braithwaite and Joselu.
