Barcelona are on the highway on Thursday taking over Almeria at Energy Horse Stadium in La Liga with the hosts already relegated to the second tier. Xavi’s facet are second however know that Actual Madrid are already champions whereas Pepe Mel’s males are backside of the desk and already doomed since final month. With 22 losses from their final 35 video games, this can be a mismatch within the kind ebook with Barca are in search of a tenth away win of this season to this point.

The Andalusians have conceded 70 targets to this point with the worst defensive report within the Spanish topflight with eight attracts and 9 losses from 17 dwelling outings — they haven’t received at dwelling all marketing campaign however they did edge Barca 1-0 final 12 months. Second spot will seal a Spanish Supercup place for the Catalans and a 2-0 win over Actual Sociedad additional helped that trigger. This could possibly be a fifteenth high two end from 16 for the Blaugrana and a report of eight wins from 9 over Almeria means that will probably be extra of the identical.

Here is our storylines, how one can watch the match and extra:

Find out how to watch and odds

• Date: Thursday, Could 16 | Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
• Location: Energy Horse Stadium – Almeria, Spain
• Watch: ESPN+ and Fubo (attempt without spending a dime)
• Odds: Almeria +600; Draw +450; Barca -275

Crew information

Almeria: Iddrisu Baba is a doubt whereas Largie Ramazani is suspended though Aleksandar Radovanovic may return from damage. Cesar Montes is again from his ban and will accomplice Chumi on the coronary heart of the protection.

Potential Almeria XI: Maximiano; Pubill, Montes, Chumi, Langa; Edgar, Robertone; Romero, Viera, Embarba; Lozano.

Barca: Gavi and Frenkie de Jong are out whereas Ronald Araujo is a doubt after lacking Sociedad. Alejandro Balde is stepping up his return however stays a way off whereas Ilkay Gundogan is suspended which may enable Fermin Lopez the prospect to step in. Lewandowski is three targets behind Girona’s Artem Dovbyk within the race for the Pichichi award so the Poland worldwide wants a prolific late burst.

Potential Barca XI: Ter Stegen; Kounde, Cubarsi, Martinez, Cancelo; Pedri, Christensen, Fermin; Yamal, Raphinha, Lewandowski.

Prediction

This one ought to go along with kind so anticipate Barca to see off Almeria by one or two targets to take care of second place. Choose: Almeria 0, Barca 2.