Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona live: Confirmed teams, full lineups in La Liga
Team news from Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona in La Liga
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have confirmed their starting teams for their meeting at the Metropolitano in La Liga on Saturday.
Victory would move Barca seven points above second-placed Real Madrid with eight matches of their season remaining after Los Blancos lost 2-1 at Mallorca earlier on Saturday.
Atleti are firmly on course to finish third or fourth but could regard this encounter as psychologically important, with the teams meeting at Camp Nou in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday and at the Metropolitano six days later (both 20:00 BST).
101GreatGoals.com has the team news and starting line-ups as Atleti host Barca in La Liga.
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Atletico Madrid confirmed team vs Barcelona
Goalkeeper Jan Oblak (muscle) and midfielder Rodri Mendoza (ankle) will return to Atleti training on Monday following injuries.
Midfielders Pablo Barrios and Johnny Cardoso (both hamstring) are sidelined and right-back or midfielder Marcos Llorente is suspended.
Atletico Madrid starting XI: Musso, Lenglet, Molina, Le Normand, Koke, Baena, Simeone, Vargas, Gonzalez, Griezmann, Almada
Atleti substitutes: Esquivel, Gimenez, Ruggeri, Hancko, Bonar, Diaz, Puric, Taufik, Morcillo, Sorloth
Barcelona full line up vs Atletico Madrid
Raphinha has a hamstring injury and midfielder Frenkie de Jong, who has been out since February with a hamstring issue, could return for the Champions League last-eight second leg.
Goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen (hamstring) and defenders Marc Pubill (rib) and Andreas Christensen (knee) are also injured.
Barcelona starting XI: Joan Garcia; Cancelo, Araujo, Cubarsi, Martin; Pedri, Garcia, Yamal, Olmo, Lopez; Rashford
Barcelona substitutes: Szczesny, Balde, Gavi, Torres, Lewandowski, Casado, Roony, Bernal, Kounde, Aller, Espart, Tommy
Where to watch Atleti vs Barca: TV channel, live online streams
Kick-off on Saturday is at 20:00 GMT (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). In the UK, live coverage is on Disney Plus.
Live streaming on a vast range of devices is available on the Disney Plus app. Subscriptions in the UK cost between £5.99 and £14.99 monthly or £99.90-£149.90 annually.
Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona stats
- Atleti have won their last six home matches in all competitions, with their most recent such victory – beating Getafe 1-0 on March 14 – the first game on that run in which they had failed to score at least three
- Alexander Sorloth has 10 league goals this season and the highest shot accuracy (53%) of any player to have scored at least 10 in the 2025/26 La Liga apart from Celta Vigo’s Borja Iglesias (54%)
- Before the latest round of games, Atleti had sent in 22 more attempts on target (161) than any team in this season’s top flight apart from Real Madrid (200) and Barca (208)
- Only Celta Vigo and Real Betis (both 1) have had fewer red cards in the current division than Atleti and Barca (both 2, alongside Valencia)
- That second-leg Copa del Rey defeat to Barca was the only game in Atleti’s last 10 in all competitions in which they failed to score
- Barcelona have won four of the five meetings between the teams since a 4-4 Copa del Rey draw at the Olimpic Lluis Companys in February 2025
- They had won their previous four trips to Atleti before that defeat in February, having lost the preceding two
- Barca have won their last three league visits to Atleti, keeping clean sheets in the first two before winning 4-2 despite being 2-0 behind in the 71st minute last season, including added-time goals by Lamine Yamal and Ferran Torres
- Only Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe (23) and Mallorca’s Vedat Muriqi (19) have more goals in the 2025/26 Liga than Barca’s Lamine Yamal (14)
- No-one can better Yamal’s total of nine assists. Teammates Fermin (8), Pedri (7), Rashford (6) and Dani Olmo (6) are also among the 10 players to have set up at least five goals, as is Atleti’s Giuliano Simeone (6)