FC Seoul against Barcelona: overview, predictions and alignments
The heating of the 2025-26 season of Barcelona continues with a confrontation against the outfit of K League 1 FC Seoul on Thursday. The pre-season tour of Hansi Flick in Asia began with a positive result. Barcelona defeated the Japanese side Vissel Kobe 3-1 last Sunday and will seek to take momentum after this performance….
The heating of the 2025-26 season of Barcelona continues with a confrontation against the outfit of K League 1 FC Seoul on Thursday.
The pre-season tour of Hansi Flick in Asia began with a positive result. Barcelona defeated the Japanese side Vissel Kobe 3-1 last Sunday and will seek to take momentum after this performance.
Liga champions have a powerful team without more reinforcements that should arrive this summer. However, pre-season matches like this help film have a better idea of what he wants that his last 2025-2010 team looks like, Barcelona always trying to unload the players in what remains of the transfer window.
FC Seoul has had a season from top to bottom. For 24 K-League 1 games, they won new, firing nine and lost six. However, they have won three of their last four championship games and will be categorical to have a good performance against one of the best world teams.
Here is Sports Illustrated Guide to the second friend of the Barcelona pre-season.
FC Seoul against Barcelona Record head-to-head
This is the first match between FC Seoul and Barcelona.
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FC Seoul |
Barcelona |
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FC Seoul 4–1 Pohang Steelers – 06/29/25 |
Vissel Kobe 1–3 Barcelona – 07/27/25 |
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FC Seoul 0–1 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors FC – 7/2/25 |
Athletics club 0–3 Barcelona – 5/25/25 |
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FC Seoul 1–0 Ulsan HD – 07/20/25 |
Barcelona 2–3 Villarreal – 5/18/25 |
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Jeju SK 3–2 FC Seoul – 07/23/25 |
Espanyol 0–2 Barcelona – 05/15/25 |
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Daejeon Hana Citizen 0–1 FC Seoul – 07/27/25 |
Barcelona 4–3 Real Madrid – 5/11/25 |
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Channel |
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United States and the rest of the world (except South Korea) |
Barcelona YouTube Channel |
FC Seoul is fourth in K League 1 after a mountain of roller coaster of one season so far. However, they have increased lately and have only two points behind the second place.
The former Manchester United player, Jesse Lingard, is the Talisman of Seoul. During 24 games this season, the former English international scored seven goals and three assists, including the winner of the match for the last time.
The Brazilian duo of Anderson Oliveira and Lucas Rodrigues are also players to watch. They are Seoul’s departure wingers and have contributed to 16 goal involvement this season.
FC Seoul predicted the programming against Barcelona (4-4-2): Kang; Park, al-Arab, Kim, Kim; Jung, Hwang, Oliveira, Rodrigues; Lingard, Klimala
Barcelona started their pre-season on the right foot and Flick will try to continue to assess its team by making large changes in its departure range.
Dani Olmo, Robert Lewandowski, Frenkie de Jong, Jules Koundé and Ronald Araújo could all get a sign after being deployed as substitutes against Vissel Kobe.
It is also likely that the young Roony Bardghji, Dro and Jofre Torrents appear in the second half, seeking to impress, so Flick chooses to maintain them with the senior team at the start of the season.
Marcus Rashford should also have a more extensive look while he slowly builds his physical shape after joining Barcelona less than two weeks ago. He could be too early for him to start, but he should have more minutes in this match.
Eric García was sidelined during training before the match while breastfeeding a minor muscular problem, so Flick could opt to be careful and rest the former Manchester City man.
Barcelona predicted the programming against FC Seoul (4-2-3-1): García; Koundé, Araújo, Martínez, Balde; De Jong, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Lewandowski
The quality gap between the two parties is important and it will be more than obvious on the field on Thursday.
Of course, Flick will seek to use pre-season matches to experiment with new things and Barcelona players always overthrow rust after almost two months of leave, but they should always move to a comfortable victory.
Lamine Yamal will score her first goal with the n ° 10 shirt and Rashford will open his Barcelona account with a second half shot.
Prediction: FC Seoul 1–4 Barcelona