Preview | FC Barcelona v Gimnàstic de Tarragona

Preview | FC Barcelona v Gimnàstic de Tarragona

(7pm CEST, Barça TV+) The Estadi Johan Cruyff hosts the first game of the 2021/22 preseason

The wait of one month and 27 days is over. FC Barcelona are back in action! The first friendly of the preseason is at the Estadi Johan Cruyff and sees the visit of fellow Catalan outfit Gimnàstic Tarragona

Like all of this year’s warm-up fixtures, you can watch the whole thing live on Barça TV+

We also have all the information as it happens in our Match Center and on all our different social media accounts. It’s a 7.00pm kick-off local time, and to check what time that is where you are, you need look no further than here. 

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It’s a game with plenty of firsts. As well as the first look at the new-look squad for the coming season, this will also be the first time the team will play in its brand new strip.

The squad

Ronald Koeman be choosing from 23 players: Dest, Piqué, Pjanic, Riqui Puig, Neto, S. Roberto, Umtiti, Iñaki Peña, Arnau Tenas, Collado, Demir, Ramos Mingo, Gavi, Comas, Escobar, Balde, Matheus Pereira, Igor Gomes, Peque Polo, R. Manaj, M. N’diaye, Hiroki, Mortimer.

Sergi Roberto is fully fit after suffering an injury at the end of the last campaign and is among the players, while Barça B’s Nico González is absent due to a stomach bug.

Familiar opponent

Curiously, this is the very same fixture that started last year’s preseason in 12 September 2020. It was Ronald Koeman’s very first game in charge, and ended in a comfortable 3-1 win for the blaugrana. 

 

Barça has a long history with city just 100 km to the south. In fact, that was where it went for its first ever game outside of the city, and which ended in a controversial 18-0 victory.

The current Gimnàstic club wasn’t formed until much later, and first met Barça in the quarter finals of the cup in 1946/47. As well as three seasons from 1947 to 1950, Nàstic also played in the first division in 2007/07. In ten competitive encounters, Barça have won eight, drawn two and never lost. 

 

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