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FT Saturday, May 23, 2026
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Valencia WLWDW 3
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Mestalla Stadium · 46,457 att. · ESPN+

Match Report

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Lewandowski scores in farewell as Barcelona lose to Valencia

Valencia scored twice in the space of five second-half minutes as they came from behind to beat LaLiga champions Barcelona 3-1, although it was not enough to earn them European qualification on the final day of the season.

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Team Stats

8
Fouls
11
2
Yellow Cards
2
0
Red Cards
0
1
Offsides
1
8
Corner Kicks
8
3
Saves
3
76.3
Possession
23.7
11
SHOTS
19
4
ON GOAL
6
0.4
On Target %
0.3
0
Penalty Goals
0
0
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
620
Accurate Passes
149
685
Passes
203
0.9
Pass Completion %
0.7
4
Accurate Crosses
5
20
Crosses
16
0.2
Cross %
0.3
43
Long Balls
38
23
Accurate Long Balls
11
0.5
Long Balls %
0.3
2
Blocked Shots
4
8
Effective Tackles
7
13
Tackles
14
0.6
Tackle %
0.5
5
Interceptions
9
24
Effective Clearances
22
24
Clearances
22

Highlights

01:12 Barcelona finishes their season with a loss to Valencia Watch on ESPN 00:22 Wojciech Szczesny makes a great save Watch on ESPN 00:30 Wojciech Szczesny makes a nice stop Watch on ESPN 01:09 Robert Lewandowski gets on the scoresheet for Barcelona Watch on ESPN

Head to Head

BAR leads series 5-0

Lineups

VAL · 4-4-2

  1. 1Stole DimitrievskiG
  2. 18PepeluCD-L
  3. 5César TárregaCD-R
  4. 21Jesús VázquezLB
  5. 4Unai NúñezRB
  6. 2Guido RodríguezCM-L
  7. 23Filip UgrinicCM-R
  8. 16Diego LópezLM
  9. 11Luis RiojaRM
  10. 9Hugo DuroCF-L
  11. 8Javier GuerraCF-R

BAR · 4-2-3-1

  1. 25Wojciech SzczesnyG
  2. 18Gerard MartínCD-L
  3. 4Ronald AraujoCD-R
  4. 3Alejandro BaldeLB
  5. 24Eric GarcíaRB
  6. 20Dani OlmoAM
  7. 6GaviLM
  8. 22Marc BernalRM
  9. 9Robert LewandowskiF
  10. 14Marcus RashfordAM-L
  11. 7Ferran TorresAM-R

Timeline

  1. 45' Substitution, Barcelona. Xavi Espart replaces Ronald Araujo.
  2. 52' Substitution, Valencia. Largie Ramazani replaces Diego López because of an injury.
  3. 61' Goal! Valencia 0, Barcelona 1. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ferran Torres.
  4. 62' Substitution, Barcelona. Andreas Christensen replaces Eric García.
  5. 62' Substitution, Barcelona. Frenkie de Jong replaces Dani Olmo.
  6. 63' César Tárrega (Valencia) is shown the yellow card.
  7. 65' Unai Núñez (Valencia) is shown the yellow card.
  8. 66' Goal! Valencia 1, Barcelona 1. Javi Guerra (Valencia) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
  9. 70' Andreas Christensen (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  10. 71' Goal! Valencia 2, Barcelona 1. Luis Rioja (Valencia) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
  11. 79' Marc Bernal (Barcelona) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  12. 80' Substitution, Valencia. Thierry Correia replaces Jesús Vázquez.
  13. 80' Substitution, Valencia. Umar Sadiq replaces Hugo Duro.
  14. 83' Substitution, Barcelona. Marc Casadó replaces Marc Bernal.
  15. 83' Substitution, Barcelona. João Cancelo replaces Ferran Torres.
  16. 90'+7' Substitution, Valencia. André Almeida replaces Javi Guerra.
  17. 90'+7' Goal! Valencia 3, Barcelona 1. Guido Rodríguez (Valencia) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.

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