La Liga prediction: Home win expected when Barcelona takes on Osasuna

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Thu 16.July
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Camp Nou (98787 seats)

Barcelona perform at a high level so far being 2nd in the table. Osasuna can look both up and down from their 11th position.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

Osasuna is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Barcelona form and stats

Home games in the La Liga have been a walk in the park for Barcelona so far, with 50 points won from 18 matches; 16 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Barcelona haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Real Madrid, 136 days ago.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen not having conceded a league goal in 256 minutes.

Barcelona enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Real Valladolid's place. The match ended 1-0 with Arturo Vidal scoring. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Espanyol.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Barcelona as they are travelling to their away game against Deportivo Alavés in the La Liga. That match is three days after this one.

Barcelona are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (51 goals in 18 games). Barcelona are not conceding a lot of goals here at Camp Nou in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 18 matches.

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Osasuna form and stats

5-6-7 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Osasuna in their La Liga matches away.

Osasuna won their last game, 2-1 versus Celta de Vigo played at home. Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Real Betis's place.

José Manuel Arnáiz came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Celta de Vigo last time out, making the manager J. Arrasate Elustondo feel like a tactical genius. Late drama in the previous game, when José Manuel Arnáiz scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time to defeat Celta de Vigo.

A new game in only three days for Osasuna, the La Liga home match versus Mallorca. Busy days.

Osasuna have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 18 league away games 18 goals have been scored. Osasuna have conceded 24 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Osasuna - Barcelona 2-2 entered in the official records. Last ten meetings between the teams: Barcelona won seven, Osasuna won one and two draws. nine games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BarcelonaL. Messi
L. Messi
22 goals
BarcelonaL. Suárez Díaz
L. Suárez Díaz
15 goals
BarcelonaA. Griezmann
A. Griezmann
9 goals

Barcelona missing players

Osasuna missing players

Barcelona Osasuna
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
36 18 6 Played P 5 18 36
24 16 6 Won W 0 5 12
7 2 0 Drew D 1 6 12
5 0 0 Lost L 4 7 12
80 51 15 Scored S 3 18 42
36 14 5 Conceded C 10 24 51
94% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 94% 86%
75% 72% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 72% 72%
61% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 28% 44%
47% 50% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 22% 28%
25% 39% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 11% 17%
50% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 40% 44% 50%
39% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 20% 28% 31%
17% 6% 0% Failed to Score F T 60% 33% 33%
 
4.8 5.1 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.4 4.5 4.9
3.7 3.6 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6.6 5.6 4.5
2.4 2.3 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 3 3
6 3 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
455 250 107 Total Shots T S 57 195 446
208 119 39 Shots on Target S O 15 56 141
38% 43% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 32% 30%
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Barcelona has the most points (50) at home
  • Barcelona has the most scored goals (51) at home
  • Barcelona has the most scored goals (80)
  • Barcelona has the most scored goals in the first half (41)
  • Barcelona has the most scored goals in the second half (39)
  • Barcelona has the the best goal difference (+37) at home
  • Barcelona have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Barcelona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Barcelona have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Barcelona have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Osasuna have scored away.
  • Osasuna has the most conceded goals in the first half (27)
  • Osasuna has the most points from losing position (18)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Real Madrid 36 25 8 3 66 22 18 14 4 0 38 10 18 11 4 3 28 12 44 83
2 Barcelona 36 24 7 5 80 36 18 16 2 0 51 14 18 8 5 5 29 22 44 79
3 Atlético Madrid 36 17 15 4 48 26 18 12 5 1 27 10 18 5 10 3 21 16 22 66
4 Sevilla 36 18 12 6 53 34 18 9 7 2 25 14 18 9 5 4 28 20 19 66
5 Villarreal 36 17 6 13 58 47 18 8 5 5 33 25 18 9 1 8 25 22 11 57
6 Getafe 36 14 12 10 43 34 18 8 6 4 25 18 18 6 6 6 18 16 9 54
7 Real Sociedad 36 16 6 14 55 47 18 9 3 6 33 20 18 7 3 8 22 27 8 54
8 Athletic Club 36 13 12 11 41 32 18 9 4 5 21 12 18 4 8 6 20 20 9 51
9 Valencia 36 13 11 12 45 52 18 10 7 1 28 16 18 3 4 11 17 36 -7 50
10 Granada 36 14 8 14 46 44 18 9 3 6 22 16 18 5 5 8 24 28 2 50
11 Osasuna 36 12 12 12 42 51 18 7 6 5 24 27 18 5 6 7 18 24 -9 48
12 Levante 36 12 7 17 43 51 18 8 5 5 26 19 18 4 2 12 17 32 -8 43
13 Real Betis 36 10 11 15 47 56 18 9 4 5 33 25 18 1 7 10 14 31 -9 41
14 Real Valladolid 36 8 15 13 29 40 18 4 10 4 16 15 18 4 5 9 13 25 -11 39
15 SD Eibar 36 10 9 17 36 51 18 7 3 8 22 24 18 3 6 9 14 27 -15 39
16 Celta de Vigo 36 7 15 14 35 46 18 5 8 5 20 17 18 2 7 9 15 29 -11 36
17 Deportivo Alavés 36 9 9 18 32 53 18 7 6 5 20 14 18 2 3 13 12 39 -21 36
18 Leganés 36 7 11 18 26 49 18 5 4 9 15 24 18 2 7 9 11 25 -23 32
19 Mallorca 36 9 5 22 37 61 18 8 3 7 24 20 18 1 2 15 13 41 -24 32
20 Espanyol 36 5 9 22 27 57 18 2 5 11 15 31 18 3 4 11 12 26 -30 24

Barcelona:
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La Liga is the top professional level of the Spanish football league system. Is is often referred to as the Primera División and is considered one of the absolute top leagues of Europe and the world. 20 teams play 380 fixtures from August to May to create a final league table.