Newcastle – Barcelona: time and where to see the Champions League duel 2025

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski (D) celebrates after scoring the sixth goal against Valencia, during the Fourth Day of LaLiga Ea Sports that Barcelona and Valencia play this Sunday at the Johan Cruyff stadium.

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Without its star Lamine YamalBarcelona will premiere this Thursday in the Champions League 2025/26 ante Newcastle In a match that foresees a battle in the center of the field and in a stadium, St James' Park, the scene of a demonstration of Faustino Asprilla Two decades ago with the same contestants.

The Premier League team presumes solidity with the Brazilian Bruno Guimaraes and Joelinton y El Italian Sandro Tonalithat will fight a battle to stand up to the Barca core, which should be formed by Pedri, Frenkie by Jong and Fermín Lópezthe three in great form at this start of the season.

Guimaraes, considered as the midfielder with the highest quality of the team in northern England, became even in the spotlight of Barça a couple of years ago when the Catalan club was looking for a substitute for Sergio Busquetsaccording to the Catalan press, but its high cost – around 100 million euros – stopped a possible operation.

Beside him, is his compatriot Joelinton, a key piece of Eddie Howe's team for being a combative player, who will be the main person in charge of preventing Barça from imposing his traditional game of the “Download-fall”.

The English team's core Tonalwho this season returns to its best level after having been sanctioned with 10 months in 2023 for having illegal bets.

In Saudi hands

Newcastle has lived a convulsive summer for the decision of the Swedish Alexander Isaacone of the architects last year of the classification for the Champions League, to sign for Liverpool.

The transfer was consumed on the last day of the market (September 1) by 145 million euros (169 million dollars), a record in England.

But before, the Blanquinegro team signed the German striker Nick Woltemade, for 90 million euros (106 million dollars), to reinforce the lead.

Thanks to its agility and stature, 1,98 metroswill be the main threat of Barça, as he demonstrated in his debut against Wolverhampton last Saturday with the goal of triumph.

“You don't need to focus well”said Alan Shearer, legendary former Newcastle player between 1996 and 2006.

For this fifth confrontation between both teams in European competitions, Barcelona will not be able to count on Lamine Yamal, injured in the pubiswhile Jong is not discarded, although he also drags discomfort.

Twenty -two years after his last duel, Cattle by Barça (2-0) in Saint James' Park, Flick's men will face an opponent who is the property of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia since 2021 and who has great ambitions.

Asprilla spirit

Despite that victory, the duel between both teams is most remembered is the one who played the September 17, 1997 who ended the local triumph for 3-2, in a demonstration of Colombian striker Faustino Asprilla.

“I was not aware of what I had done until the end of the game and days later, because I no longer paid a drink in the city, Everyone wanted to talk about the game with me”, Said the current television commentator, author that day of the three goals of the URACAS.

The Newcastle will appeal to the Asprilla spirit, which will witness the party invited by the club live, and the support of the 52,000 viewers that will fill St James' Park, one of the hottest stadiums in England.