Barcelona vs Villarreal

Xavi Hernandez's Catalans are currently second in the LaLiga Santander table, with the Yellow Submarine sitting seventh after defeating Osasuna 2-0 on home soil ...

This Thursday's match between Barcelona and Villarreal kicks off at 21:00 CEST, the local time in Spain. For those living in the USA you can catch the game at 15:00 ET or 12:00 PT, and for those living in the United Kingdom and Ireland you can watch the match at 20:00 BST. He is starting with: Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Kounde, Marcos Alonso, Jordi Alba; De Jong, Gavi, Pedri; Ferran, Lewandowski, Ansu Fati.

Barcelona will look to put their El Clasico woes behind them when they host Villarreal for Thursday night's La Liga encounter at Camp Nou.

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Ferran Torres to Gavi and he passes it to Roberto but he fails to get through the defense and passes it to Alba. Wonderful through ball from Pedri as Lewandowski receives it in a rather awkward position but he manages well as he turns and puts the ball in the back of the net. Yeremy gets a well placed through ball and the play shifts to the right flank. He then passes it to Danjuma who shoots but the ball goes just wide Pedraza is down and it looks like he has a hamstring strain. A stumble from Rulli and Fati is there to tap it in

Barcelona will hope to get to within three points of Real Madrid at the top of LaLiga by defeating Villarreal at Camp Nou.

Of course, you might be looking for a place where you can watch the game. Of course, you may well remember that Villarreal defeated Barcelona in their own backyard on the final day of last season thanks to goals from Alfonso Pedraza and Moi Gómez. Better news for Barcelona is that Alexia Putellas is in the house! He skips away from Femenía down the left and into the box. A chance to get a dangerous ball into the box from a free-kick and it goes behind. But Koundé is fast enough to get back in front of Morales and nips it in the bud. The full-back was well offside and his cross was blocked anyway, but what a spin and pass from the youngster. A narrow escape at the back for Xavi's men. To be fair to Ferran, he did score at the Bernabéu and he got into a great position again there. He misses the target and that sums things up for the visitors. We almost managed to finish the game without a booking. Three goals in less than 10 first-half minutes effectively killed off a game which looked to be in the balance early on.

BARCELONA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Barcelona bounced back from their Clasico loss in style as they cruised to a 3-0 home LaLiga win over Villarreal with a brace from Robert Lewandowski on Thursday. Barcelona remained second in the standings on 25 points, ...

Now we need to think about Sunday." "Off course I want to win. We stepped up and showed character, good intensity, good in defence and, above all, in attack." [Pedri](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/250465/Pedri) stole the ball close to the centre circle. "We needed to react and were due a performance in a big game. "I think we played really well," Xavi said following the win.