La Liga · Sun 8 Nov, 21:00 CET
Riyadh Air Metropolitano, Madrid
Atletico at home are compact, aggressive and loud, and this is Barcelona's last game before the international break. Go at them or keep the ball and wait? Pick the eleven and play it.
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Our predicted Barcelona starting XI for Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona in a 4-3-3: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out. Squad information as of 23 October 2026. Looking for the Barcelona lineup today? The confirmed Barcelona line up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, this is the prediction.
Disagree with the prediction? Use the lineup builder above to pick your own starting XI and formation, then play the match to see how it goes.
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Barcelona are predicted to line up in a 4-3-3: Joan Garcia; Alejandro Balde, Pau Cubarsi, Andreas Christensen, Jules Kounde; Pedri, Rodri, Frenkie de Jong; Anthony Gordon, Raphinha, Lamine Yamal. Squad information as of 23 October 2026.
Sunday 8 November 2026, 21:00 CET, at Riyadh Air Metropolitano, Madrid (La Liga).
Eric Garcia (injured: thigh, out for three to four weeks); Dani Olmo (injured: adductor, out for around a month); Roony Bardghji (injured: knee ligament, out for six to seven months).
About an hour before kick-off. Until then this is the predicted Barcelona line-up, and you can pick your own starting XI on this page and play the match.
A pre-match game. Atletico Madrid v Barcelona has not been played yet, so there is no real result to match — you choose the Barcelona eleven, place every player wherever you like, set the approach, and the match runs on the spot.
This is not a prediction game. Nobody is keeping score and there is nothing to get right — the match has not been played yet, so there is no correct answer to find. Pick the eleven you would pick, or the eleven nobody would dare, and see what your team does with it.
This game comes down once the real match has finished. The full simulation — where you take the touchline in a match that really happened and change how it actually ended — lives on MatchRewrite permanently. Browse the clubs.
Before this one kicks off, play the matches that have already happened involving Atletico Madrid and Barcelona. Each one is the real line-ups and the real result, and you make the calls that decided it.
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