📊 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 3-4 La Liga victory vs Real Sociedad.

In that game, Valencia managed 45% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Valencia, the goals were scored by Guerra (8', 93'), Duro (22'), Tárrega (60' Own goal) and Guido Rodríguez (89'). Real Sociedad had 8 shots on goal with 3 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 come into this meeting after a 3-1 La Liga win to defeat Real Betis in their previous game.

In that game, Barcelona had 63% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. For Barcelona, goals were scored by Raphinha (28', 62') and Cancelo (74'). For their opponents, Real Betis had 7 shots on goal with 2 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

Looking at their past head to head results going back to 16/12/2023 reveals that these encounters have not been kind to Valencia. They have not been able to get themselves any victories at all while Barcelona have been the better of the two, beating them in 83 per cent of those matches played.

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

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was La Liga match day 4 on 14/09/2025 and the score finished Barcelona 6-0 Valencia.

That day, Barcelona managed 72% possession and 24 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. The scorers were López (29', 56'), Raphinha (53', 66') and Robert Lewandowski (76', 86').

Valencia had 2 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

ℹ️ Team News: Valencia

It looks as if Los Che could opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one with Stole Dimitrievski, Unai Nunez, Pepelu, Cesar Tarrega, Jesus Vazquez, Guido Rodriguez, Filip Ugrinic, Luis Rioja, Javier Guerra, Diego Lopez and Hugo Duro.

🗞️ Team News: Barcelona

We’re of the thinking that Barça could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, settling for 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, 04:06 23/05/2026