Line-ups: Barca-Valencia

Philippe Coutinho comes into Barcelona's XI for their Liga clash with Valencia this afternoon, but Ousmane Dembele is only a substitute.

Coutinho replaces the injured Ivan Rakitic and Nelson Semedo makes way for Paulinho as Barca scrap the 4-4-2 for a 4-3-3 in their first game since throwing away a 4-1 lead against Roma in the Champions League quarter-finals.

However, Dembele still cannot get a look-in, despite the big-money winger being fully fit for this afternoon's eastern Spanish encounter.

Valencia, meanwhile, are flying high in fourth, with five straight wins in the bag, although they have only beaten the Catalans twice since 2008.

Curiously, this is a repeat of only two seasons ago, when the Blaugrana were knocked out by Atletico Madrid and went on to lose 2-1 at home to Los Che.

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Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Pique, Umtiti, Alba; Paulinho, Sergio Busquets, Iniesta; Messi, Suarez, Coutinho

Subs: Cillessen, Semedo, Denis, Dembele, Alcacer, Gomes, Vermaelen

Valencia: Neto; Vezo, Garay, Gabriel, Gaya; Soler, Parejo, Kondogbia, Guedes; Rodrigo, Mina

Subs: Jaume, Murillo, Maksimovic, Vietto, Zaza, Pereira, Lato

Referee: Del Cerro Grande

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