Barça vs. Real Sociedad: Time and where to watch the La Liga match
Flick's team returns to the Olympic Stadium without Joan Garcia and Raphinha, but with Lamine ready to get some minutes.
BarcelonaBarça hosts Real Sociedad in a match that sees Lamine Yamal and Alejandro Balde return to the team. Hansi Flick's team, enjoying a good run of results, has lost goalkeeper Joan Garcia and striker Raphinha to injury, but hopes to remain in the fight for the league lead. There is hardly a day that goes by without Hansi Flick's team's infirmary remaining stable. After the match in Oviedo (1-3), the injured players were significant, with the loss of the first-choice goalkeeper and one of the undisputed forwards.
The goalkeeper will be out for four to six weeks due to a torn internal meniscus in his left knee, which will require surgery. Brazilian Raphinha injured his hamstring and will be out for about three weeks. Added to this are the long-term absences of Marc-André ter Stegen and Gavi, and also Fermín, with psoas problems. So without Joan Garcia, the starting goalkeeper, or Ter Stegen, it will once again be time for Poland's Wojciech Szczesny, who already defended the Barça goal last season.
It will be the return match to Montjuïc, where in theory there would no longer be any games. But the construction work at Camp Nou forces this return to the Lluís Companys stadium in a match in which Flick will have to fine-tune his starting eleven, especially because in a few days the team will make their home debut in the Champions League and against PSG, the current European champions. Lamine Yamal, out since the beginning of the month with a groin injury, is available; so is Alejandro Balde, who has overcome his physical problems. Flick has confirmed that Lamine will get a few minutes.
Barça vs. Real Sociedad Schedule
The match will be played on Sunday, September 28th at 6:30 p.m. at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.
Where to watch the match on TV
The match will be broadcast on M+ LaLiga. It can also be followed live on the ARA website.
Possible lineups
Barça: Szczesny; Kounde, Eric, Cubarsí, Gerard Martín or Balde; De Jong, Pierre; Bardghji or Lamine, Olmo, Rashford; and Ferran or Lewandowski.
Royal Society: Remiro, Aramburu, Zubeldia, Caleta-Car, Aihen; Gorrochategi, Marín, Turrientes, Goti; Guedes and Karrikaburu.
Referee: Alejandro Hernández (Las Palmas Committee)
