📏 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia are hoping to win again following the 3-4 La Liga victory against Real Sociedad.

In that match, Valencia had 45% possession and 13 shots at 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'). On the other side, Real Sociedad got 8 attempts 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 will go into the encounter following a 3-1 La Liga win versus Real Betis in their last fixture.

In that match, Barcelona had 63% possession and 15 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Barcelona, the goals were scored by Raphinha (28', 62') and Cancelo (74'). At the other end, Real Betis got 7 shots at 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 review of past results between these clubs going back to 16/12/2023 tells us that these encounters have been miserable for Valencia. They have not been able to register any wins whatsoever while Barcelona have been the better of the two, running out winners in 83 per cent of those matches.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 30 overall at an average of 5 goals per meeting.

The previous league game between the two was La Liga match day 4 on 14/09/2025 which ended up with the score at Barcelona 6-0 Valencia.

On that day, Barcelona managed 72% possession and 24 shots at goal with 10 on target. Goals were scored by López (29', 56'), Raphinha (53', 66') and Robert Lewandowski (76', 86').

Valencia got 2 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

🗞️ Team News: Valencia

It seems likely that Los Che will possibly employ a 4-2-3-1 formation, handing starts to 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 believe Barça seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of 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, 01:05 23/05/2026