BARCELONA play host to Espanyol TONIGHT in another La Liga derby which will be Xavi’s first game as Barca boss.
The home side currently sit ninth in the league table, with their opposition two places behind in 11th.
- Kick-off: 8pm
- Barcelona: 1 Ter Stegen; Mingueza, 3 Pique, 24 Garcia, 18 Alba; 5 Busquets, 21 F. De Jong, 28 Gonzalez, 30 Gavi, 37 Akhomach, 9 Memphis
- Espanyol: 13 Lopez; 22 Vidal, 24 Gomez, 4 Cabrera, 3 Pedrosa; 15 Lopez, 10 Darder, 25 Herrera; 23 Embara, 9 Puado, 9 De Tomas
- TV/live steam: Premier Sports 2
Follow ALL of the latest updates below…
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
FULL TIME!
It’s all over and Barca win the derby – and Xavi’s first match at boss – thanks to Memphis Depay’s controversial goal.
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
90 MINS
SIX mins of injury of time at the Nou Camp!
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89 YELLOW CARD
Barcelona goalkeeper Ter Stegen gets booked for time-wasting as we approach stoppage time
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88 SUBSTITUTION
Barcelona boss Xavi makes a late double change as Demir replaces Gonzalez, who appears to have hurt his ankle.
Araujo also comes on for Mingueza
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86 WHAT A CHANCE!
Espanyol miss another opportunity, and guess who wasted it!
And yes, it was De Tomas once more!
Morlanes delivers a wonderful cross from the left and the striker, who is completely unmarked, picks up a scintillating header.
But the ball rattles Ter Stegen’s right-hand post!
Terrible defending by Barcelona once more, the hosts are challenging their luck!
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85 Espanyol have missed several chances to equalise but are not giving up.
On the contrary the missed opportunities have raised their confidence!
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84 WHAT A CHANCE!
How are Espanyol not level?!
Lei delivers a wonderful cross from the left and finds Dimata completely unmarked but his header misses the target!
Terrible defending from Barcelona!
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
83 YELLOW CARD
De Jong gets booked for a foul on Lei as his hand goes too high on his opponent’s face
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81 CHANCE!
Espanyol star De Tomas comes extremely close to an equaliser again!
The striker delivers a free-kick, 25m away from goal, and the shot just misses Ter Stegen’s right-hand post
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80 Barcelona continue to control possession and tempo as we enter the last 10 minutes of the derby.
It;s been a while asince Espanyol have last threatened…
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78 SUBSTITUTION
Barcelona boss Xavi responds as he introduces Puig, who replaces Busquets
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77 SUBSTITUTION
Espanyol manager Moreno is shaking things up for the last few minutes of the match.
Lei and Dimata come on as they replace Embarba and Herrera respectively
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75 Barcelona are not getting complacent.
Barca are pushing for that second goal to seal the win, Espanyol are not creating many chances
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73 CHANCE!
Barcelona youngster Abde does amazingly well as he dribbles past two Espanyol players down the right flank and breaks inside the area.
But the forward’s shot just misses the crossbar.
Abde is so entertaining in one-on-one situations, and the Nou Camp crowd is loving it!
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
73 So far so good for Barcelona and Xavi.
But Espanyol have proven to be very dangerous on the counter-attack.
How did De Tomas miss that glorious chance?
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70 SUBSTITUTION
Barcelona manager Xavi brings on Coutinho, who replaces Gavi
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70 WHAT A CHANCE!
Espanyol come inches away from an equaliser!
Vidal delivers an incredible ball from his own half and releases De Tomas in front of Ter Stegen.
But the striker sends the ball out for a goal-kick!
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
68 CHANCE
The free-kick leads to a raft of deflections and it all ends with a poor shot by Morlanes from the edge of the box
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67 Espanyol get a free-kick from a promising position down the left on the edge of the box.
Abde and Pedrosa are at it again, as the former fouls the latter
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65 NO GOAL!
Barcelona think they made it 2-0 when Gonzalez releases De Jong in front of Lopez and beats him with a wonderful flick.
But the Dutchman was just offside!
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64 YELLOW CARD
Minguez becoems the second Barcelona player to get booked after fouling Herrera on a counter-attack
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63 We are seeing a much more entertaining second half with Barcelona pushing for a second goal.
As mentioned earlier, the fact Barca already got their opener has relieved them of immense stress.
That allows them to play their game with confidence
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61 WHAT A CHANCE!
Barcelona come extremely close to a second only for Pedrosa to save Espanyol!
Busquets stretches the visitors’ defence open with a wonderful ball that releases Abde.
The youngster shoots the ball over Lopez and Pedrosa kicks it out in the nick of time!
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
60 YELLOW CARD
Barcelona’s Abde and Espanyol’s Pedrosa both get booked following that short melee
BARCELONA 1-0 ESPANYOL
59 Things are heating up in the derby following a clash between Abde and Pedrosa down the right flank.
Players from both sides get into a melee, but nothing major
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
