One eye shall be on Champions League play midweek, however for Barcelona, profitable a house match towards Valencia on Sunday is important within the race to achieve floor in La Liga. Trailing Actual Madrid by seven factors for the La Liga title has been the one poor mark on Hansi Flick’s first season accountable for Barcelona. Whereas they cannot overturn that deficit alone, Barcelona have to win the video games that they need to and that is one among them going through a group within the relegation zone. Winless of their final 4 league matches, Sunday must be when that involves an finish to have a shot on the title.
This is our storylines, how one can watch the match and extra:
watch and odds
- Date: Sunday, Jan 26 | Time: 3 p.m. ET
- Location: Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys — Barcelona, Spain
- Reside stream: ESPN+
- Odds: Barcelona -525; Draw +600; Valencia +1200
Storylines
Barcelona: Flick will nonetheless be with out Dani Olmo and Inigo Martinez for this match however outdoors of Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Barcelona have a principally clear harm record. After a poor displaying in Champions League play, it does make sense for Flick to make a change at keeper with Inaki Pena coming in for Wojciech Szczesny after his tough midweek outing.
Barcelona predicted XI: Inaki Pena, Alex Balde, Pau Cubarsi, Ronald Araujo, Jules Kounde, Marc Casado, Pedri, Lamine Yamal, Gavi, Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski
Valencia: Up towards it, Valencia have to convey every thing that they’ll to this match to maneuver up the desk. Unbeaten of their final 4 matches in all competitions, Valencia are nearer to security however this shall be a more durable problem than drawing Sevilla or defeating Actual Sociedad.
Valencia predicted XI: Giorgi Marmardashvili, Jose Gaya, Yarek Gasiorowski, Cesar Tarrega, Dimitri Foulquier, Enzo Barrenchea, Javier Guerra, Luis Rioja, Andre Almeida, Diego Lopez, Hugo Duro
Prediction
With Lewandowski main the road, Barcelona’s assault cannot be slowed down however defensively, Valencia will discover the again of the online as effectively however it will not be sufficient. Choose: Barcelona 3, Valencia 1
