About Match
12 points for FC Barcelona (1st), 1 for Valencia (20th): an 11-point gap. Against a league average of 1.5 goals per team per game, FC Barcelona run at 4.25 scored and 0.5 conceded, Valencia at 0.25 and 2.25. If Valencia win, their total rises to 4 and up to 12th, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Momentum sits with FC Barcelona, winners of their last seven, having scored in 11 consecutive games. Valencia have been beaten in three straight games. The five-game form split reads 15/15 points for FC Barcelona against 1/15 for Valencia.
40 meetings are on record — 25 won by FC Barcelona, 5 by Valencia, 10 drawn, at 3.53 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Goals at both ends are the pattern: both teams scored in 65% of the meetings. Goals have risen lately: 5.6 per game across the last five meetings, against 3.53 across the full history.
The match takes place at Camp Nou in Barcelona (capacity 6,000).