{"id":2790,"date":"2026-09-12T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:15:06","slug":"levante-coach-sends-warning-to-barcelona-ahead-of-la-liga-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Levante coach sends warning to Barcelona ahead of La Liga clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Following wins against Elche, Athletic Club, Rayo Vallecano, and <a href=\"https:\/\/barcanewsnetwork.com\/yamal-10-fermin-9-5-valencia-0-5-fc-barcelona-player-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Valencia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">FC Barcelona<\/a> are set to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> action on Sunday, when they will travel again to Valencia to face Levante. With the team they have at their disposal, and especially the way they have started the new season, the Catalans are the clear favorites to win this match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, their opponents are seemingly not intimidated by their dominant recent performances, and will be keen to put up a good fight in Sunday\u2019s match. This is clear from a press conference held by the Levante coach, Luis Castro, ahead of this game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/futbol\/levante\/20260912\/1004226290\/luis-castro-avisa-barca-jugar-ganar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Mundo Deportivo<\/a> has reported, the Spanish coach believed his team had the same chances of winning as Barcelona:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"ArticleBlockquote_blockquote__text__RZ8Vn\">\u201cWe have to be at our best. We play in the same league as them, and we have to be fully focused, at our highest level, and try to hurt them where we can. The match starts at 0-0, eleven against eleven.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Levante coach was particularly keen to get a result in front of his fans:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cAs with every match, we prepare to win. There are no easy games in LaLiga, and Barcelona are one of the best teams in the world, but we are going to play to win, do our best and try to give our fans another reason to celebrate at our stadium.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Castro was treating the Blaugranes just like any other opponent, and looking to take advantage of any of their weaknesses:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cEvery opponent has their strengths. Against Bar\u00e7a, you have to be concentrated and alert. If you want to win, you have to try to take away as much of the opponent\u2019s potential as possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/levante-coach-sends-warning-to-barcelona-ahead-of-la-liga-clash-43446943\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following wins against Elche, Athletic Club, Rayo Vallecano, and Valencia, FC Barcelona are set to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2791,"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-2790","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434469433Fdate2026-09-12.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}