📏 Form Guide

Independiente del Valle

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Independiente del Valle won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 6-2 Copa Libertadores loss in their previous game against River Plate.

In that game, Independiente del Valle had 35% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Independiente del Valle was Claudio Spinelli (21'). River Plate got 21 shots on goal with 7 on target. Sebastián Driussi (8'), Franco Mastantuono (45'), Maximiliano Meza (51'), Miguel Borja (88') and Manuel Lanzini (90') scored for River Plate.

It’s not been often in recent games where Independiente del Valle haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Independiente del Valle have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals in the process.

Barcelona SC

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After being beaten in their last game against Universitario Deportes in Copa Libertadores action, Barcelona SC and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Barcelona SC had 56% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Universitario Deportes got 18 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Alex Valera (45') was the scorer for Universitario Deportes.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, Segundo Castillo's Barcelona SC have found the back of the net a total of 5 times therefore earning them the goals scored per game average of 0.83.

👥 Head to head

The last league game between these clubs was Copa Libertadores match day 1 on 02/04/2025 when it finished Barcelona SC 1-0 Independiente del Valle.

That day, Barcelona SC had 44% possession and 17 shots at goal with 7 on target.

Independiente del Valle had 10 shots on goal with 2 on target.

ℹ️ Team News: Independiente del Valle

The Independiente del Valle manager Javier Rabanal has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

We think that Los Rayados del Valle look set to make use of the 4-3-1-2 system for this game featuring Guido Villar, Thiago Santamaria, Layan Loor, Richard Schunke, Luis Zarate, Jhegson Mendez, Jordy Alcivar, Patrik Mercado, Juan Cazares, Claudio Spinelli and Michael Hoyos.

📋 Team News: Barcelona SC

Owing to a fully injury-free group ready to go, the Barcelona SC manager Segundo Castillo does not have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match.

It’s our belief that Ídolo del Ecuador appear most likely to play in a 4-4-2 system by sending out I. De Arruabarrena, Bryan Carabali, Xavier Arreaga, Gustavo Vallecilla, Anibal Chala, Byron Castillo, Dixon Arroyo, Leonai, Braian Oyola, Janner Corozo and Felipe Caicedo.

💡 Prediction

In this match, Independiente del Valle look set to get amongst the goals against Barcelona SC, who will not find it easy to break down their defence.

Therefore, we are anticipating a 2-0 victory for Independiente del Valle at the end of this one.

Peter Guest, 00:01 28/05/2025