📏 Form Guide

Barcelona

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Barcelona will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-2 La Liga defeat in their last game at the hands of Real Madrid.

Barcelona haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They’ve claimed a sum of 11 during that period and have conceded a total of 9.

Their past results show that Barcelona:

• are unbeaten in the league by Valencia in their previous 7 games.
• are unbeaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Valencia

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Since a loss in their previous game against Real Betis in La Liga action, Valencia will be hoping to turn things around here.

Over the course of 5 of the past 6 clashes involving Valencia, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell comes out as a paltry 1.17, with the average goals for Los Che standing at 0.67. We will have to see if that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Valencia:

• are winless against Barcelona in away games against them for the last 7 matches in the league. Not good.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 02/05/2021 tells us that these fixtures have been miserable for Valencia. They’ve not been able to register any victories whatsoever whereas Barcelona have dominated them, beating them in 83 per cent of those matches played.

18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 13 of them for Barça and 5 belonging to Los Che. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

📋 Team News: Barcelona

Frenkie de Jong (Ankle injury), Alejandro Balde (Tendon rupture) and Gavi (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be taking part for Barcelona gaffer Xavi Hernández.

It looks as if Barça look set to make use of the 4-3-3 formation for this one with M. ter Stegen, Jules Kounde, Ronald Araujo, Pau Cubarsi, Joao Cancelo, Ilkay Gundogan, Andreas Christensen, Fermin Lopez, Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha.

ℹ️ Team News: Valencia

Valencia manager Rubén Baraja has a number of players out of action. Roman Yaremchuk (Knee injury) and Mouctar Diakhaby (Knee injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We believe Los Che seem likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 lineup with a starting lineup of Giorgi Mamardashvili, Thierry Correia, Cristhian Mosquera, Yarek Gasiorowski, Jesus Vazquez, Peter Gonzalez, Javier Guerra, Pepelu, Diego Lopez, Andre Almeida and Hugo Duro.

✨ Prediction

Our assessment is that Barcelona should score more than once against Valencia, who will be up against it getting goals.

Therefore, we are anticipating a 2-0 winning margin for Barcelona at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 18:13 29/04/2024