Barcelona 7-1 Valencia | LaLiga 24/25 Match Highlights

Koundé Koubasi, Eric Garcia and Balde across the back. De Jong, Casado and Firmino in midfield because Pedri is sick. Rafinha, Ferran and Laminia Mou. Lots of surprises. Yes, there is, and I think he's looking at this as a critical game they've got to win. This isn't a game where you can just rest players for the sake of it, knowing that you're fully expected to win the game. They were expected to beat Las Palmas at home, Leganes at home, Atletico Madrid 50-50 could go either way. But this tonight is critical that Barcelona do win. So he obviously feels it's right to play players who are a little bit more fresher than some of those that have been playing on a regular basis. Well, as Terry says, it's not really about resting people because this game really is more important than the game coming up in midweek because Barcelona are sitting nicely in the Champions League. They are not sitting nicely in La Liga. The referee tonight is César Soto Grande. This is the Valencia line-up. There are no changes, there are no shocks, I should say. This is pretty much what the Valencia press predicted in the build-up to the game. Mamedashvili in goal, Fouquier, new contract. Here's Fermin, Laminia Mou into the area. De Jong with a chance, and he takes it. Barcelona have the lead inside three minutes. Frenkie De Jong, one of the, well, not so surprising team selections because he has been in very good form recently. But he clearly at the moment has the full confidence of the manager. Then they become complacent. They've got to avoid that. They've now got to strive to try and get the second and the third and take it away from Valencia. Excellent from Fermin into the path of Baldi, who finds Rafinha with the shot, and it screeches just wide of Mamedashvili's right hand upright. Fermin to Eric Garcia, out to Frenkie De Jong. Keeping the ball well, Barcelona, Baldi with the cross. And Ferran makes it two, and we're not even at minute eight yet. Scores against his old club, and therefore it's a mild celebration by Ferran Torres's standards. Eric Garcia confidently into Laminia Mou, just as confident with the backflip, and that's confident as well. Rafinha could make it three here, and this will be some goal. It is some goal. It is Barcelona three, Valencia nil. Rafinha scores his 12th goal of the season, but it was brilliant from start to finish. Valencia can't live with Barcelona at the moment. Doing against Barcelona's midfield players, the quality is far superior. Well, it might be a fourth here, and it is a fourth. Has the flag gone up? The flag's gone up. Well, ball over the top, and Valencia, it turned out, had played the offside trap correctly, and Fermin's, what would have been his first of the season. And they're not shy of that, because this is going to be a goal. Well, he got eight goals last season, and he's finally off the mark this season. Another one of the changes tonight, another one of the big calls from Hansi Flick, and another one that's paid off brilliantly. Fermin lays that on for Laminia Mou. It comes out to Baldi. Baldi will strike it. It's pushed out by Mamadashvili, and Rijeka swings at it. Hugo Duro lets it run beyond him. He goes down under the challenge from Szczesny, and Valencia have a penalty, and Szczesny gives away his second spot kick in the space of four days. Yellow card for the goalkeeper. Is it a foul by Szczesny? If it didn't lead to a penalty, then we wouldn't be discussing it, but... Well, the fact that he's been... Yeah, the fact that he's been called to look at it... Certainly in the early days, a foul used to mean that he was going to change his mind. Not always the case now, but... It almost looks to me like Guy actually gets his shin on the ball. And the timing of the challenge and the contact with Koundé isn't significant where it's late. Koundé gets away from... Koundé gets the touch. Guy gets his shin on the ball. There is a collision between the two players. Left foot misses it, but the right leg... The shin of Guy makes contact with the ball and the leg of Koundé. Is that enough to overturn? I don't think it is. I can see the medical team here checking on Koundé. And they're focusing more on the left thigh than the lower part. The collision seems to go high up on the knee towards the thigh. And that's where he's complaining the most. Well, his complaints will be in the referee's mind. He's about to call the decision. I think he is going to rule that it's a free kick. So... La minima. Slid through for Rafinha. And Rafinha off the crossbar. It comes out to Ferdinand. And he strokes it in as if it's the easiest thing in the world to do. And it is FC Barcelona 5, Valencia 0. Well, it could have been Rafinha. It wasn't. It was Ferdinand. Well, there goes the halftime whistle, Terry. An emphatic first 45 minutes for FC Barcelona. Yeah, an absolute disaster for Valencia. A spell where Berenguer was playing well. And if Corberijn comes in, he looks at it and thinks, actually, I don't change at the moment. So it remains to be seen whether Berenguer is on loan. Valencia launch a quick attack here. It's Almeida up against Balde. He goes for goal. Punched away by Szczesny. Back to Almeida. Briocha to Gaja. Diego Lopez. Diego Lopez with the cross. Hugo Turo and Valencia have scored their first goal of the game. Hugo Turo strikes again. He's second. Huge ovation for Rafinha, Toro Martín and Lewandowski. The play is coming on. Triple change coming for Valencia as well. We're going to have Arons, Vázquez and Fran Pérez coming on. So maybe we will see Umar at the moment. We're watching Lewandowski and Lewandowski doing what Lewandowski does. It's not much more than his first touch and he's buried it. And it's Barcelona 6-1 Valencia. I mean, it's a chance for most players, nearly all players. It's a half chance. Casado. Forward to Fermin. Paul Victor. Cross to Ferran. Good finish from him. Nice save from Mamedashvili. Fouquier clears. Casado once more. Into Ferran Torres. He gets the shot away. Saved by Mamedashvili. Comes back out to Ferran Torres. And the cross is slammed into his own net by Tarriga. Cesar Tarriga adds his name to the score sheet. And they have made it 7-1. It's an own goal this time. Take into account their opponents tonight. I didn't expect them to be 4-0 up in 24 minutes. So, fantastic night for Barcelona. Desperate for Valencia. Carlos Corbera in.