{"id":3882,"date":"2026-09-16T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:04:44","slug":"barcelona-star-dropped-to-bench-for-first-time-this-season-vs-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona star dropped to bench for first time this season vs Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A member of the defensive ranks at La Liga giants <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/barcelona-5\">Barcelona<\/a> has on Wednesday been forced to make do with a place on the bench for the first time this domestic season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Youngster Espart is for his part of course fresh off nothing short of a brilliant individual opening to the new campaign. Fending off competition from the more high-profile Jo\u00e3o\u00a0Cancelo and Alejandro Balde, the Spaniard, at just 19, has locked down the left-back spot in Hansi Flick\u2019s XI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Across five La Liga starts to date, Espart has racked up a goal and two assists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As alluded to above, though, on Wednesday, with the fixtures coming thick and fast ahead of the international break, the young stopper has at last been afforded a rest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ahead of a meeting with newly-promoted Racing Santander, Hansi Flick has opted for Jo\u00e3o\u00a0Cancelo as his starting left-back for the evening:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/barcelona-star-dropped-to-bench-for-first-time-this-season-vs-racing-43473038\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the defensive ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona has on Wednesday been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3883,"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-3882","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\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434730383Fdate2026-09-16.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}