At Spanish La Liga Espanyol and Barcelona will season’s first games against Espanyol as well as the first game at New Year. On 2^nd January 2016 match will kick off at Power8 Stadium which will host by Espanyol. Barca just defeats Real Batis at league after 2 consecutive drawn at the last match day of Spanish La Liga of the year.

Match Details:          

League                         :           Spanish La Liga (2015-16 season)

Day                              :           Saturday

Kick Date                    :           2^nd January 2016

Match                          :           Espanyol Vs Barcelona

Stadium                        :           Power8 Stadium (Cornella de Llobregat)

Kickoff                        :           21:00 BST, 4:00 PM GMT

TV Broadcasting List:

• beIN Sports Arabia 1 HD
• ESPN Play Latin America’
• Idman TV
• QQ Sports Live
• Star Sports 4 Asia

Thus far 48 head to head among current league 13^th place holder Espanyol and lead defending champion Barcelona. Since 1994-95 season Barcelona and Espanyol’s meeting, 5 victory for Espanyol and 31 victory for Barcelona. 12 match among them also finished after drawn. Most recent victory for Espanyol against Barcelona come on 2011 in a Club Friendlies by 0-3 goals. But most recent league victory for them were 2008-09 season and also the victory was at Barcelona’s home Camp Nu by 1-2 goals. In between that victory on 2008-09 season only 2 more drawn among them. Last victory for Barcelona was by 0-2 goals and all 4 previous match won by Barca consecutively and all were clean sheet. Last season’s first match Barca were won by 5-0 goals at home.

Espanyol Squad:

Ruben Duarte, Francesco Bardi, R Correa, V Sanchez (3rd captain), Gerard Moreno, Victor Alvarez (4th captain), E Roco, S Sevilla, Javi Lopez (captain), Burgui, A Gonzalez, M Ciani, Felipe Caicedo, Mamadou Sylla, A Arbilla, H Perez.

Barcelona Squad:

I Rakitic, Claudio Bravo, Dani Alves, P Rodriguez, G Pique, Sergio Busquets (3rd captain), Andres Iniesta (captain), M Bartra, L Suarez, Rafinha, Sandro Ramirez, Jeremy Mathieu, J Mascherano (4th captain), T Vermaelen, Sergi Roberto,

Team                                       MP      W        D         L          GF       GA      GD      P

Barcelona                               15        11        2          2          40        15        +25      38

Espanyol                                 17        6          2          9          16        28        -12       20