Barcelona Predicted lineup vs Valencia Preview, Team News, Prediction and Live Stream
This weekend Barcelona meet Valencia and Alley Sport is here with Barcelona Predicted lineup vs Valencia as Ronald Koeman’s men look to fight for the Champions league spot which has looked difficult seeing the horrendous start to the season.
Barcelona come into this game after defeating league leaders Real Sociedad 2-1. Koeman’s men went down in the twenty seventh minute when Willian Jose gave Sociedad the lead and Blaugrana replied via Jordi Alba who took a first time shot when he found Antoine Griezmann’s deflected pass.
Alba who was on the run saw the opportunity and took the shot to give Barcelona a chance to get back in the game.In the forty-third minute Frenkie De Jong was the first person to react to a deflected Jordi Alba cross which he put past Alex Remiro to give Blaugrana the lead. This win Brings Barcelona to fifth position and close gap on Atletico Madrid to six points.
Barcelona vs Valencia Preview
Barcelona have only lost one of their last eight La Liga matches vs Valencia winning four and drawing three. However they last lost to Valencia away in Mestalla 2-0. It was a brace from Maxi Gomez which gave the 3 points to Valencia last January.
At the Camp Nou Barcelona have avoided defeat vs Valencia winning last three and drawing one in last four and scoring an aggregate of 20 goals in all games.
Barcelona vs Valencia Team News
Barcelona confirmed before that during the Levante encounter Ousmane Dembele had suffered yet another injury, and the Frenchman will miss out here with that latest hamstring problem.
Gerard Pique, Ansu Fati and Sergi Roberto are all sidelined for long term, with Roberto recently testing positive for Covid-19 as he recovers from a thigh problem.
Samuel Umtiti is finally back in the fold and pushing for a start at centre-back, while Pedri has impressed with performances against Levante and the latest win against Sociedad.
The Centre back pairing of Ronald Araujo and Oscar Mingueza could be used for the second time this season as Clement Lenglet has shown frailties without Pique.
Barcelona Predicted lineup vs Valencia
Barcelona possible starting XI:-
Formation 4-2-3-1
GK Marc Andre Ter Stegen
RB: Sergino Dest
RCB: Ronald Araújo
LCB: Óscar Mingueza
LB: Jordi Alba
DM: Sergio Busquets
CM: Frenkie De Jong
RW: Antoine Griezmann
AM: Pedri
LW: Martin Barithwaite
ST: Lionel Messi
We Predict that Barcelona will draw the match vs Valencia given their unpredictable form this season and also we must not forget that Valencia shocked Real Madrid 4-0 few months back.
Barcelona vs Valencia Live Stream
The Match will be Streamed live on Facebook Watch for the world and will kickoff at 8:45 PM IST in India ,Saturday 19th December and for British viewers the match will kick off on Saturday 19th December at GMT 3:15 PM.
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