{"id":1432,"date":"2026-09-05T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:22:29","slug":"valencia-manager-highlights-barcelona-quality-ahead-of-la-liga-clash-they-are-the-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Valencia manager highlights Barcelona quality ahead of La Liga clash \u2013 \u201cThey are the champions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After three back-to-back wins to start the new season, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> will be looking for their fourth consecutive victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> as they take on Valencia tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <em>Blaugrana<\/em> have an excellent opportunity to build an early lead over rival Real Madrid, who dropped points against Real Betis in this gameweek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Valencia, though, will be determined to secure their first win of the season. And ahead of this crucial matchup, Valencia coach Carlos Corberan talked about Barcelona in the pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Corberan has immense respect for Barcelona.  (Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Corberan acknowledged the scale of the challenge his side face but insisted his focus remains firmly on his own team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is a team with a lot of potential. Although they have come from being champions of the league, they have made a tremendous investment, more than 170 million, more than other years. They have great possibilities but we focus on Valencia,\u201d <\/strong>he said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/corberan-el-barca-es-el-campeon-y-ha-invertido-170-millones-pero-nos-centramos-en-el-valencia-f202609-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Diario AS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe staff wants to claim and show that we can do things better than last week. We have a desire to feed and improve the performance of last weekend,\u201d<\/strong> he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Valencia have started the season with just one point in three matches, most recently losing to Deportivo A Coruna in their last game. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Will Flick ring in the changes this weekend? (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A key talking point heading into this clash is whether or not Hansi Flick will have the luxury of fielding a full strength eleven, considering Barcelona have Champions League to worry about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Catalans are slated to face Feyenoord in the Champions League on Wednesday, which could potentially force Flick to make a few changes in the starting eleven. There are already doubts about Lamine Yamal, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/barcauniversal.com\/just-in-lamine-yamal-absent-from-group-training-ahead-of-barcelonas-trip-to-valencia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">absent from training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, it is likely he will maintain his strongest eleven for the league encounter against Valencia and make some early substitution calls later in the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Barcelona do have the benefit of not having to face Feyenoord away in midweek, thus saving the team from a hectic travel schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/valencia-manager-highlights-barcelona-quality-ahead-of-la-liga-clash-they-are-the-champions-43407537\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three back-to-back wins to start the new season, Barcelona will be looking for their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434075373Fdate2026-09-05.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}