Barcelona tackle Athletic Membership tonight. Comply with the motion with our stay commentary…
It’s not usually a semi-final exit may be considered in such optimistic phrases however Barcelona’s 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Tuesday left the Catalans with a really feel good issue that they’ll hope to take into tonight’s conflict with Athletic Club.
Trailing 4-0 from a disastrous first leg within the final 4 of the Copa del Rey, Barca almost completed another remarkable remontada but fell just short.
They head to San Mames on top of La Liga and in fine condition to retain the title they received final season.
Athletic had been additionally crushed within the Copa semis, taking place to Basque rivals Actual Sociedad.
The place to look at Athletic Membership v Barcelona: TV channel, stay on-line streams
Kick-off on Saturday is at 20:00 GMT (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). Within the UK, stay protection is on Disney Plus.
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Athletic Membership v Barcelona stats
- Every of the final 5 conferences between these groups has resulted in a Barcelona win, with Athletic Membership failing to attain within the final 4
- Solely Barca (13), Atleti (11), Madrid (11) and Villarreal (10) have received extra dwelling league matches than Athletic Club (7) this season
- Athletic Membership have conceded in every of their final six dwelling matches in all competitions since successive clear sheets in opposition to Atletico Madrid (1-0) and Paris Saint-Germain (0-0) in December
- They’ve scored as soon as within the final eight league conferences between the groups. Their final Liga purpose from open play in opposition to Barca was a header by Inigo Martinez – who later joined their opponents – in August 2021
- Head coach Ernesto Valverde received La Liga twice, the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Tremendous Cup throughout his time as Barcelona boss between 2017 – having left Athletic Membership – and 2020
- Fermin Lopez has two objectives and three assists throughout the final three editions of the fixture
- Barcelona have received their final three matches however misplaced their most up-to-date two away, struggling that 4-0 defeat at Atleti and a 2-1 loss at Girona
- Solely Actual Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe (23) and Mallorca’s Vedat Muriqi (16) have extra La Liga objectives this season than Barca’s Lamine Yamal (13)
- Mbappe is the one participant (27) with extra direct purpose involvements than Yamal (22) within the 2025/26 division
- Other than Celta Vigo’s Borja Iglesias (54%), Ferran Torres has the very best shot accuracy (51%) of the 9 gamers to have scored no less than 10 occasions on this season’s La Liga
