Barcelona will meet Valencia in their next La Liga encounter on Sunday as they look to continue their winning run in the new season.
Date: Sunday, 6th September.
Kick-off: 3:15pm BST.
Venue: Estadio de Mestalla
Valencia CF faces a severe squad selection crisis ahead of their home clash at Mestalla against league leaders Barcelona. Manager Carlos Corberán is dealing with a heavily depleted roster, with six key first-team players officially ruled out due to injury.

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The next Barcelona match is upon us! The Blaugrana travel to Mestalla for a La Liga game against Valencia, and Hansi Flick has called up the following 24 players for Sunday's clash:
Goalkeepers: 1. Joan Garcia, 13. Wojciech Szczesny, 25. Dominik Livakovic
Defenders: 2. João Cancelo, 3. Alejandro Balde, 5. Pau Cubarsí, 12. Xavi Espart, 15. Andreas Christensen, 18. Gerard Martín, 23. Jules Kounde, 24. Eric Garcia
Midfielders: 4. Brian Fariñas, 6. Gavi, 7. Fermín López, 8. Pedri, 16. Rodri, 20. Dani Olmo, 22. Marc Bernal
Forwards: 9. Gabriel Jesus, 10. Lamine Yamal, 11. Raphinha, 14. Karim Adeyemi, 17. Anthony Gordon, 29. Hamza Abdelkarim

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Barcelona's next visit to Mestalla is set to carry a historic significance. If the stadium is eventually replaced or loses its role as Valencia's home for competitive football, owing to redevelopment, this meeting could be the final chapter of one of Spanish football's longest-running fixtures at the historic ground.
Few venues have provided such an evenly balanced setting for Barcelona.
Simply put, the two clubs have met at Mestalla 115 times across six competitions, with Barça narrowly ahead on 43 victories to Valencia's 42. The remaining 30 encounters ended level.
That near-perfect balance makes Mestalla one of the rare grounds where Barcelona have never enjoyed overwhelming historical dominance.
Recent history, though, has shifted in their direction.

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Newcastle United forward Yoane Wissa scored twice to give head coach Matthias Jaissle a 2-1 win against Valencia in his first pre-season friendly in charge.
Filip Ugrinic opened the scoring for Valencia with a curling effort at the Mestalla Stadium, before captain Jose Gaya was sent off for a bad tackle on Anthony Elanga.
Substitute Wissa equalised with a calm finish from close range and then went on to put the visitors in front after new signing Bazoumana Toure unselfishly squared the ball to him to slot home.
How did the Newcastle players perform against the Spanish side?
Lukas Hornicek: Comfortable in possession and made a couple of decent saves. But needs to be more ***** ertive with his communication to his centre-backs and command his area. 7

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It was a night which ended with Newcastle United lifting a trophy, but there was certainly no danger of new head coach Matthias Jaissle getting carried away.
Not after defeating Valencia in his first pre-season friendly in charge at the Mestalla Stadium.
"We will not smash the locker room now and celebrate," he said. "We still have a lot to do."
That was quickly apparent after Newcastle fell behind inside four minutes, following Filip Ugrinic's curling opener.
But Jaissle will have taken heart from his players' response in a feisty contest, not least after forward Anthony Elanga was stretchered off following a bad tackle from Jose Gaya, which earned the Spaniard a red card.

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Matthias Jaissle takes charge of Newcastle for the first time as they face Valencia in a pre-season friendly.
The former Red Bull Salzburg and Al-Ahli coach was appointed after Eddie Howe parted ways with the club midway through the summer, bringing an end to a popular if occasionally turbulent spell on Tyneside.
Now the German will have the first chance to test out his philosophy as the Magpies visit the Estadio de Mestalla, with Newcastle arriving off the back of a decidedly mixed run of pre-season games - a 3-0 win over Darlington followed a 1-1 draw with Gateshead and a 4-1 mauling by Championship club Bristol City.
They then face Everton, Bayer Leverkusen and Strasbourg before the start of the Premier League season, with Jaissle overseeing a very different squad to last term after the departures of major names Bruno Guimaraes, Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali, and Kieran Trippier.
Here's everything you need to know.

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La Liga outfit Valencia have this week sent a contract proposal the way of a member of the defensive ranks at the recently-relegated Girona.
The player in the sights of the board at Mestalla with a view to next season? Arnau Martínez.
Arnau, for his part, is fresh off a solid individual campaign on the books of the aforementioned Girona. Despite the collective struggles of the Catalans en route to relegation, the versatile full-back continued to showcase his talents at both ends.
Across 35 La Liga appearances all told, Arnau racked up two goals and three ****** ists.
His efforts are understood to have piqued the attentions of a whole host of Spanish clubs this summer, with the widespread expectation being that Arnau will be on the move before the window slams shut.

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NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle players headed to a preseason training camp in Spain on Friday amid uncertainty over their coach less than a month before the start of the Premier League season.
Eddie Howe was expected to leave the job and would be replaced by Matthias Jaissle, according to multiple media reports in Britain. Newcastle had yet to confirm any changes Friday.
Reports said sporting director Ross Wilson would oversee coaching duties in the interim.
Newcastle's training camp in Spain concludes Aug. 8 with a friendly match against Valencia at Mestalla Stadium.
The Magpies open their Premier League season on Sunday, Aug. 23 at home against Liverpool.

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When the Leeds United squad boarded their flight to North America this week, one name was missing from the manifest. Largie Ramazani was left behind at Thorp Arch. It was a calculated move. Unmistakable, really. Spanish outlet Marca broke the news that the 25-year-old winger has been excluded from the club's stateside tour, signalling to anyone paying attention that Daniel Farke has effectively closed the door on the Belgian's time in West Yorkshire.
Valencia are waiting in the wings. Having hosted Ramazani on loan throughout the 2025/26 La Liga campaign, the Spanish outfit want him back at the Mestalla, this time permanently. Their CEO, Ron Gourlay, initiated contact with Leeds chiefs back in June to sniff out a realistic asking price.
Money is the sticking point. Leeds naturally want to claw back a hefty chunk of the £10 million package paid to Almería back in 2024, particularly with a 15 per cent sell-on clause owed to the Spanish side hanging over the deal. Valencia, operating on a far tighter budget, want a bargain. They have floated the idea of another season-long loan with a non-mandatory option to buy. Leeds should shut that down instantly. A second loan leaves all the risk on Elland Road balance sheets while Valencia reap the rewards without dropping a single euro on a permanent transfer fee.
Ramazani's spell in Spain was decent enough. Playing under Carlos Corberan on the left wing, he notched six goals and one ***** ist in 22 top-flight outings, logging 1,224 minutes on the pitch. A return of six goals from a wide player in a transitional Valencia side is a solid foundation. Yet, his 6.62 average match rating on FotMob points to a player who still drifts. He can vanish for 70 minutes, only to pop up with a flash of brilliance.
That was always the conundrum in West Yorkshire, too. During Leeds' Championship ***** le-winning campaign, Ramazani made 31 appearances but started a paltry nine times. Bizarrely, his underlying metric, xG plus xA per 90 minutes, was the highest of any player in the entire division. The data screamed elite output. Farke's team selections said something else entirely. The German manager simply never trusted him to do the dirty work off the ball.

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La Liga outfit Valencia have this week announced a fresh addition to the club’s first-team ranks. This comes amid confirmation of Ryunosuke Sato having penned contract terms at Mestalla.
Sato, for his part, is a versatile 19-year-old attacker, who has spent the early years of his fledgling career plying his club trade in his home country of ***** an.
This past season, the starlet took to the pitch on 19 occasions in the colours of FC Tokyo, notching six goals and an ***** ist along the way.
Such exploits, coupled with Sato’s ability to fill a number of attacking roles, culminated in mounting transfer interest from across Europe heading into the summer.
And as alluded to above, on Tuesday, one such suitor have officially beaten out the competition to the winger’s signature.

Spain and Austria meet this Thursday in the Round of 32 of the World Cup, a clash with a history full of unfinished business. Although La Roja have dominated the most recent meetings, the past hides battles that demand maximum caution from Luis de la Fuente’s side.
The most bitter memory for the Spanish national team dates back to the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. On that occasion, the Austrian side won 2-1 in the group stage, a painful defeat that ended up costing Spain an early exit from the tournament.
However, football always offers revenge, and the sweetest one came in 1999 on the road to the European Championship. Mestalla witnessed a historic night when Spain crushed Austria with an undeniable 9-0, led by a legendary display from Raúl González.
The latest meeting between the two national teams dates back to November 2009, in a very different context. Spain visited Vienna as reigning European champions and swept aside their opponent with a commanding 1-5 win that confirmed their golden era.
The overall record smiles on La Roja, but World Cup knockout ties do not care about the past. This Thursday, De la Fuente’s men will look to impose their favoritism to book their place in the quarter-finals and confirm that history remains on their side.

According to MARCA, Valencia have added Real Madrid starlet Joan Martinez to their list of defensive targets as they continue working to reshape their squad ahead of the new season.
While the club’s immediate priority remains reducing the size of the current squad, head coach Carlos Corberan is also eager to strengthen several positions before pre-season begins.
Among the players under consideration at Mestalla is Joan Martinez, the highly rated 18-year-old centre-back currently with Real Madrid Castilla.
Martinez joined Real Madrid two seasons ago after developing in Levante’s academy. Despite suffering a serious knee injury during his early years in Madrid, he has continued to progress impressively and is regarded as one of the club’s brightest young defenders.
His development has already been recognised at senior level, earning call-ups to the Real Madrid first-team squad under both Xabi Alonso and Alvaro Arbeloa. The club believes his long-term potential remains extremely high.

The board at Valencia are understood to have beaten out their counterparts at La Liga rivals Real Betis to the signing of Guido Rodríguez.
Midfielder Guido spent the 2nd half of this past season plying his trade in the colours of Valencia.
After penning a short-term contract in a cut-price January transfer from West Ham United, the 32-year-old went on to play a leading role for Los Che.
All told, across 16 La Liga appearances, Guido racked up four goals, en route to a mid-table finish at Mestalla.
This form gave rise to interest from the aforementioned Real Betis, for whom the 32-year-old previously featured between 2020 and 2024.

Former Scotland international and RCD Mallorca defender Alan Hutton sat down with Get Spanish Football News to discuss his time in Spain with his former team.
Can you tell me a little bit about your time at Mallorca and any memories that really stand out for you?
The whole experience was absolutely brilliant. It’s something that I’d not gone through before. In terms of going to a different country and playing. It came out the blue from an agent I knew up in Scotland. It happened really quickly. In terms of experiences, it was like night and day from England or Scotland. Its culture was very different, where we’d go train with the team and then after that we’d go down to the beach and all sit and have a laugh. It was something I’ve never experienced. There wasn’t that pressure down on your shoulder where every day people are saying things to you in the press or the media, and it wasn’t like that; it was about enjoying your football. And to have the chance to go and play at some of the stadiums, Atlético de Madrid, it was obviously the old one [The Vicente Calderón Stadium] at the time, the Mestalla, going to the Bernabéu, the Nou Camp. All these things were just incredible for me. And also the overall look at football, even though we were a smaller team, it was go and play and go and attack. You were going to Real Madrid or Barcelona, and we want to play our game. Obviously, ultimately, we were playing against top opposition. But it was what we did. And I’ve never really come across that before, to go and attack those big teams. I thought the whole experience was brilliant, and ever since then, I always go back. My brother-in-law was there two weeks ago at a Mallorca game. It made an impression on us all. It was just a brilliant time for me.
You mentioned the move came about quite quickly. How did the move first materialise, and what were your initial thoughts?
I’m going to be brutally honest with you: I didn’t know Mallorca had a team. It was an agent that I knew from Glasgow, John Viola, it was kind of out of the blue. He said, ‘I’ve got this opportunity; would it be something you fancied?’ I needed to think about it. I wasn’t playing for Aston Villa at the time, and it was coming close to the end of the [transfer] window. I looked up the team and saw that Giovani Dos Santos was there, who I played with at Spurs. I was kind of like, ‘Alright, let’s just do it. I need to go and play. Let’s just do it. It’s something totally different.’ And it happened, really quickly after that. It was just get out here, fly over, and do everything we need to do. And as soon as I got there, I just felt at home. Everybody was really good around me. The staff that was looking after me. Everything was just perfect, and I felt that this was the place to be.