📏 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 3-4 La Liga success against Real Sociedad.

In that match, Valencia had 45% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Valencia, the scorers were Guerra (8', 93'), Duro (22'), Tárrega (60' Own goal) and Guido Rodríguez (89'). For their opponents, Real Sociedad had 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Muñoz (3') and Orri Steinn Óskarsson (63') scored for Real Sociedad.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that Valencia have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Valencia have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 8 goals during that time.

Looking at their past form shows that Valencia:

• have not beaten Barcelona in their previous 11 matches in the league.
• have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

Barcelona

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Barcelona go into this meeting following a 3-1 La Liga win vs Real Betis in their last match.

In that game, Barcelona had 63% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 9 on target. For Barcelona, the goalscorers were Raphinha (28', 62') and Cancelo (74'). On the other side, Real Betis got 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Isco (69') scored for Real Betis.

A sequence of accomplished showings by the Barcelona defensive unit has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 3 from their previous 6 outings overall. In that period of time, their forwards have scored 10. Regardless, time will tell if that pattern will be maintained in this next game.

Coming into this fixture, Barcelona are undefeated by Valencia when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. A very good run of results for them.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head meetings going back to 16/12/2023 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for Valencia. They have not been able to get any victories at all whereas Barcelona have just been stronger than them, getting wins in 83% of those ties.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 30 in all at an average of 5 goals per match.

The previous league game between the two was La Liga match day 4 on 14/09/2025 when it ended Barcelona 6-0 Valencia.

On that day, Barcelona had 72% possession and 24 shots on goal with 10 of them on target. The goalscorers were López (29', 56'), Raphinha (53', 66') and Robert Lewandowski (76', 86').

At the other end, Valencia had 2 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

ℹ️ Team News: Valencia

It’s our opinion that Los Che will probably use a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Stole Dimitrievski, Unai Nunez, Pepelu, Cesar Tarrega, Jesus Vazquez, Guido Rodriguez, Filip Ugrinic, Luis Rioja, Javier Guerra, Diego Lopez and Hugo Duro.

ℹ️ Team News: Barcelona

We reckon that Barça might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Wojciech Szczesny, Eric Garcia, Pau Cubarsi, Gerard Martin, Alejandro Balde, Gavi, Marc Bernal, Raphinha, Dani Olmo, Marcus Rashford and Robert Lewandowski.

💭 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Valencia will likely create enough chances to find the net against this Barcelona team, although one goal probably won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We are therefore anticipating a very close game with a 1-2 winning score for Barcelona by the conclusion of the game. Looking forward to this.

Lucas Pereira, 18:04 23/05/2026