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Barcelona predicted line-ups & matches to play

Barcelona predicted line-ups and team news

The predicted Barcelona line-up for each of the next matches, with the players ruled out and why. Pick your own starting XI on any of them and play the match.

How each predicted Barcelona line-up is picked: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out and the reason given. Every page shows the date its squad information was checked. The confirmed Barcelona line-up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, the prediction is the guide. Each fixture page comes down once its match has been played, and new fixtures are added as the season goes on.

Few clubs have produced comebacks and collapses of the same magnitude, often within months of each other.

Take the touchline for Barcelona in 4 matches that really happened. Pick your eleven, make the substitutions and the tactical calls, and find out whether you could have changed how it ended. Free to play in your browser, with no download and no account.

Barcelona's most replayed matches are the ones where a tie was already decided. Four goals down from a first leg and through by the end of the night; three up and out by the end of another. Both happened, and both are on this site to be taken apart.

What makes them worth managing rather than watching is how many of those nights turned on a single call — a full-back pushed higher, a substitution made ten minutes earlier, a defensive line that held or did not. You get to make those calls with the scoreline already known.

These are not highlights. You name the starting eleven from the real squad, then make the calls the manager made — when to change the shape, when to bring somebody off, whether to chase a goal or protect what you have. The game asks, you answer, and the match moves on without waiting.

Barcelona matches carry a particular weight because the football is expected to look a certain way as well as win. Choosing to abandon that and defend a lead is a decision the game will let you make, and then show you what it cost.

Free to play in a browser, on a phone or a laptop, with no account. Each match takes ten minutes or so, and the result depends entirely on what you decide.

Barcelona matches you can play