Valencia vs Barcelona. Predictions and Betting Tips for La Liga

In the previous summer Valencia appointed Javi Gracia as their new head coach. He had to built a new team, along with that, club will soon relocate to the new arena with a capacity of 75,000 spectators.

In the current La Liga season Valencia count on their star players and on youngsters from Valencia and from outskirts. The Bats failed to impress in this season and rarely put up a high-class performance.

In the Spanish Cup Oranges beat Yeclano and Alcorcon, but in the round of 16 lost to Sevilla (0:3). After 34 rounds of the current La Liga season hosts have eight wins and 12 draws, which gave them 36 points and 14th place in the standings.

In last five games Valencians lost two matches and had three draws - against Real Sociedad (2:2), Betis (2:2) and Alaves (1:1).

Cillessen will miss this game because of a knee injury.

Barcelona started year 2021 badly - loss at the Super Cup and elimination from the Champions League were a tough punches to take for Barca's fans, who were waiting for the trophy for more than a year, which is strange for a team of that caliber. However, supporters of Catalonian team eventually got what they wanted.

Blaugranas had a confident run in Copa del Rey, where they beat Rayo Vallecano, Granada and Sevilla on their way. In the final Ronald Koeman's side left no chance to Athletic (4:0), which we gave our prediction on.

In La Liga Barca recorded 22 wins and 5 draws in 33 games, which gave them 71 points, tied with Real. They are 2 points behind the leader. After two confident wins over Getafe (5:2) and Villarreal (2:1) guests suddenly lost to Granada (1:2) and missed a chance to get on top of the league.

Fati, Coutinho and Braithwaite, who has an ankle injury, are on team's injured list.