Barcelona v Valencia LIVE - Updates from La Liga as Barca being held by ten-man Valencia, who have goalkeeper sent off

Fermin is the thorn in the side of the Valencia midfield right now, as he's inhabiting those small spaces between the defensive lines as the extra man in the Barcelona engine room.

... as Javi Guerra rides a challenge from Christensen and bursts towards the Barcelona box. He's lacking support either side, so he goes alone, but Araujo blocks the sidefooted effort.

... between Christensen and Lewandowski as Barca penetrate the middle of the pitch, with the Polish striker drawing Mosquera into midfield. The move develops as Cancelo has a pop and then Fermin, but both their efforts are well blocked.

... from a slither of the home support as Correia gives Raphinha a nudge in the back in the box, but the referee is having none of it. That battle should be the one to watch this evening.

... from Valencia. There is no real intention of pressing when Barca have the ball, as they drop into their compact defensive structure.

We're underway.

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Here are the two teams once more for those that missed them:

Barcelona: ter Stegen, Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsi, Cancelo, Gundogan, Christensen, Fermin, Yamal, Lewandowski, Raphinha.

Valencia: Mamardashvili, Correira, Mosquera, Gasiorowski, Vazquez, Lopez, Pepulu, Guerra, Gonzalez, Almeida, Duro.

As for Ruben Baraja's visitors, they're in their customary 4-4-2 midblock, which they'll use to try and stifle Barca and frustrate them in a compact defensive structure.

To do that, they'll need talented young Georgian goalkeepr Giorgi Mamardashvili to be in top form, ably protected by the central defensive duo of Yarek Gasiorowski and Christian Mosquera, the two 19-year-olds who will be up against perhaps their trickiest test of the campaign in the wily fox in the box Lewandowski.

The mercurial Portuguese Thierry Correira is at right-back, and his athleticism should give him the physical edge over Raphinha, although the Brazilian's trickery and ball mastery will make that a mouth-watering one-v-one. Jesus Vazquez completes the defensive quartet on the left, and he has another young gem, Diego Lopez, ahead of him at left midfield, with both needing to remain disciplined against the elusive Yamal and Gundogan down the Barca right.

The indefatiguable Javi Guerra and Pepelu are the two workhorses in central midfield, while Peter Gonzalez is off the right flank.

Up top. Hugo Duro has the responsibility to pin the home centre-backs and link play, with Andre Almeida afforded a free role off him as the second striker, picking up pockets of space to create as a sort of faux-number ten.

Let's analyse these teams, shall we?

Xavi's home side are back in their 4-3-3, and there are no real surprises with his team selection at this stage of the season.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen is between the sticks as the sweeper keeper, joining in with build-up as an auxiliary outfielder, and Pau Cubarsi, the 17-year-old, continues at centre-back alongside the reliable and aggressive Ronald Araujo. That leaves Jules Kounde playing in his less-favoured right-back role, but the width down the right will be held by 16-year-old Lamine Yamal, with Ilkay Gundogan at times drifting into the half-space in a mezzala role.

Joao Cancelo is at left-back and will invert with natural left-footer Raphinha holding the width ahead of him in the left-wing berth, while Fermin will keep things ticking over in the middle of the park alongside natural centre-half Andreas Christensen, who has impressed as a deputy holding midfielder of late.

Robert Lewandowski, naturally, is the focal point and main goalscoring threat up top.

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... and here's how the visitors start this one.

Here's how the hosts line up...

... and welcome to our LIVE text coverage of Barcelona's La Liga encounter with Valencia. The Culers are sat third in the table, one point off surprise package Girona, and could leapfrog the latter with a win here. Valencia, meanwhile, are eighth, four points and a game in hand off Europa Conference League qualification, which Real Sociedad curently occupy. Stay tuned for all the updates, with kick off at 20:00 BST.