About Match
4 points for Espanyol (12th), 12 for FC Barcelona (1st): an 8-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Espanyol 1.5 scored and 1.25 conceded per game, FC Barcelona 4.25 and 0.5, with the league averaging 1.5. Espanyol would climb to 7 points with a win and up to 6th (other results held equal).
FC Barcelona enter with seven wins in a row, having scored in 11 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Espanyol hold 4 points of 15 and FC Barcelona 15.
34 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Espanyol 1, draws 7, FC Barcelona 26, at 2.88 goals per meeting. Recent editions have opened up: 3.8 goals per game across the last five meetings against 2.88 historically.
RCDE Stadium in Cornella de Llobregat, capacity 40,000, hosts the game.