Barcelona eye victory against Valencia in 2018/19 La Liga at home
Kick-off : 6:30 PM (Local)
Venue : Camp Nou, Barcelona
Barcelona won comfortably against Girona last weekend in La Liga and should be confident for the games to come ahead.
Barca are at the moment first in the points table after 21 games with 49 points. Against Valencia Barca will have to be at the top of their game giving the absolute best to extract maximum points.
Barcelona have their next three games against arch rivals Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Valladolid across Copa del Rey and La Liga respectively.
On the other hand, Valencia are having an OK 2018/19 La Liga season but improvements certainly are their required.
Valencia are at the moment seventh in the points table after 21 games with 29 points. In Barcelona they have got top quality opponents against whom Valencia will have to produce excellent football hoping for some luck.
Barcelona have a good record against Valencia and they will look to continue the good work.
Team news and possible line-ups
Ezequiel Garay, Gonzalo Guedes and Geoffrey Kondogbia will all be not available for Valencia for the weekend game as due to injuries.
As for Barcelona, Ousmane Dembele, Rafinha and Samuel Umtiti will all be unavailable as due to injuries. While Sergio Busquets is suspended and will be unavailable.
Valencia XI : Neto, Piccini, G. Paulista, Diakhaby, Gaya, C. Soler, Coquelin, Parejo, Cheryshev, Rodrigo, S. Mina.
Barcelona XI : Ter Stegen, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Alba, Vidal, Arthur, Rakitic, Messi, L. Suarez, Coutinho.
Prediction
It should be a good game between two good teams but Barca should prevail in the end. They might win 2-1. The goalscorers might be Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez for Barca and Cheryshev for Valencia.
