Barcelona are aiming to complete 2025 with a four-point lead over second-placed Actual Madrid on the high of La Liga.
The reigning champions go to third-placed Villarreal on Sunday, with their opponents seven factors behind Madrid.
The Yellow Submarine, who’re the one aspect aside from the highest two to have solely misplaced two league video games this season, have three matches in hand on Los Blancos and two on Barca.
101GreatGoals.com has the crew information and line-ups from Villarreal vs Barcelona in La Liga. You may as well comply with stay textual content updates and stats from the match here.
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Villarreal lineup vs Barcelona
Centre-back Rafa Marin, left-back Sergi Cardona, midfielder Santi Comesana, winger Alberto Moleiro and ahead Ayoze Perez preserve their locations from Villarreal’s 2-1 Copa del Rey defeat at second-tier Racing on Wednesday.
Head coach Marcelino is coping with a prolonged damage record, with Willy Kambwala, Logan Costa, Pau Cabanes, Ramon Terrats, Gerard Moreno and several other others unavailable. Pape Gueye and Ilias Akhomach are on the 202 Africa Cup of Nations.
Villarreal beginning XI: Luiz Junior, Pau Navarro, Rafa Marin, Renato Veiga, Sergi Cardona, Tajon Buchanan, Santi Comesana, Dani Parejo, Alberto Moleiro, Nicolas Pepe, Ayoze Perez
Villarreal substitutes: Arnau Tenas, Adria Alti, Manor Solomon, Gerard Moreno, Georges Mikautadze, Tani Oluwaseyi, Jean Valou, Carlos Macia, Alassane Diatta
Barcelona lineup vs Villarreal
Barcelona make six modifications from their 2-0 win at Guadalajara within the Copa del Rey on Tuesday, bringing in goalkeeper Joan Garcia, defenders Jules Kounde, Pau Cubarsi, Gerard Martin and Alejandro Balde alongside forwards Raphinha and Ferran Torres.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Marc Casado, Andreas Christensen, Jofre Torrents, Roony Bardghji, Marc Bernal and Marcus Rashford make method.
Pedri is out with a calf difficulty, probably making Frenkie de Jong and Eric Garcia Barca’s midfield pairing Midfielders Gavi and Dani Olmo and defender Ronald Araujo are additionally injured.
Barcelona beginning XI: Joan Garcia, Kounde, Cubarsi, Gerard Martin, Balde, Eric Garcia, Frenkie de Jong, Fermín Lopez, Raphinha, Ferran Torres, Lamine Yamal
Barca substitutes: Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Robert Lewandowski, Marcus Rashford, Marc Casado, Marc Bernal, Wojciech Szczesny, Dro Fernandez, Roony Bardghji, Tomas Marques
The way to watch Villarreal vs Barcelona: Stay stream, TV channel
Kick-off on Sunday is at 15:15 GMT (10:15 ET / 07:15 PT), with stay protection within the UK on Premier Sports activities 1 and streaming obtainable on an unlimited vary of units by way of the Premier Sports activities app.
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Villarreal vs Barcelona stats
- Villarreal have received six consecutive La Liga matches
- They’ve misplaced their final two video games away to second-tier Racing within the Copa del Rey and at dwelling to Copenhagen within the Champions League
- Marcelino’s crew have conceded three fewer targets than every other aspect on this season’s Liga (13)
- Two of their final three league conferences with Barca have ended victoriously, however they haven’t received the fixture at dwelling since October 2007
- Barcelona have received seven straight league video games
- They’ve scored 49 targets in 17 league matches in 2025/26
