GIR 1-4 BAR Highlights, La Liga 2024-25: Lamine Yamal scores ...

FC Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates scoring its first goal with Raphinha. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

FC Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates scoring its first goal with Raphinha. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

Welcome to Sportstar’s highlights of the Girona vs FC Barcelona La Liga 2024-25 match being played at the Estadi Montilivi.

Girona: Gazzaniga(gk), Frances, Lopez, Blind, Gutierrez, Solis, Martin, Tsygankov, Danjuma, Gil, Ruiz

FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen(gk), Kounde, Cubarsi, Martinez, Balde, Pedri, Casado, Olmo, Raphinha, Yamal, Lewandowski

The lowest of the lows of Barcelona’s trophyless campaign last season was when it was beaten not once, but twice, by the formerly modest Girona.

Girona dealt Barcelona a pair of stinging 4-2 defeats as the club partly owned by Manchester City’s Abu Dhabi ownership emerged as one of the surprise packages of European football. It finished the La Liga season in third place, just behind Barcelona in second, and for the first time qualified for the Champions League.

Those embarrassing losses to a fellow Catalan club played a part in the downfall of Xavi Hernandez as Barcelona’s coach.

Barcelona is under new management — Hansi Flick — and will visit a new-look Girona on Sunday aiming to make it five wins in as many games with the German coach.

Flick has a team with some important changes led by the arrival of a more dynamic Dani Olmo for the departed Ilkay Gundogan. Olmo, fresh from helping Spain win the European Championship, has fit right in with the club he belonged to as a youth player.

Olmo scored in his first two games for Barcelona before the international break and is clicking as its interior attacking midfielder flanked by Spain teenage phenom Lamine Yamal and an in-form Raphinha.

READ FULL PREVIEW | Barcelona under Flick’s management eyes revenge against Girona having lost both fixtures last season