It's only seven days and nights since Valencia met Deportivo Alaves and the scoreline was 1-2. Can they get the points vs FC Barcelona?
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa League.
Valencia form and stats
Valencia have collected 18 points from their La Liga home games so far after 4-6-2. Valencia have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Valencia faced defeat in their previous match, away at Deportivo Alaves (1-2). Guedes, a forward, was the highest rated performer for the side in that match, collecting a rating of 7.43 (out of 10). Guedes scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.
Valencia have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio de Mestalla with 18 goals in 12 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 13 goals have been conceded.
FC Barcelona form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their La Liga travels is 3 wins, 7 draws and 2 defeats. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Rayo Vallecano game have they lost an away game, meaning FC Barcelona has taken points from eight away matches in a row.
Attacker Aubameyang got a player rating of 7.6 in the game. "Man of the match" Aubameyang hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 2-2 draw at Espanyol's stadium before that.FC Barcelona have another match that requires travelling in just four nights, a Europa League match vs Napoli. A grim fixture list for the guests!
Barcelona have scored 15 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. FC Barcelona have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
FC Barcelona - Valencia 3-1 was the output when this pair of squads formerly met, also in this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Valencia two wins, three draws and FC Barcelona five victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Ganchinho Guedes 9 goals |   M. Depay 8 goals |  C. Soler Barragán 7 goals |
Valencia missing players
FC Barcelona missing players
| Valencia | FC Barcelona | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 6 | 12 | 23 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 36 | 18 | 5 | Scored | S | 11 | 15 | 38 |
| 38 | 13 | 6 | Conceded | C | 10 | 14 | 27 |
| 88% | 92% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 83% | 83% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 67% | 74% |
| 62% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 33% | 48% |
| 38% | 17% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 33% | 35% |
| 25% | 8% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 8% | 17% |
| 75% | 67% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 58% | 65% |
| 25% | 33% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 22% |
| 12% | 8% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 25% | 17% |
| 5.1 | 5.2 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.9 | 5.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| 3.8 | 3.8 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.4 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 11.4 | 11.8 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.2 | 12.1 | 13.1 |
| 4.2 | 3.8 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | 4.9 |
| 36% | 40% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 31% | 34% |
| 12.5 | 12.8 | 13.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.8 | 11.1 | 9.7 |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | 6.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
| 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 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 48 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 28 | 54 |
| 2 | Sevilla | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 20 | 50 |
| 3 | Real Betis | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 45 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 43 |
| 4 | FC Barcelona | 23 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 39 |
| 5 | Atletico Madrid | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 42 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 38 |
| 7 | Villarreal | 24 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 36 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 34 |
| 9 | Osasuna | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | -2 | 32 |
| 10 | Celta de Vigo | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 31 |
| 11 | Rayo Vallecano | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 31 |
| 12 | Valencia | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 38 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 25 | -2 | 30 |
| 13 | Espanyol | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 19 | -5 | 28 |
| 14 | Elche | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 26 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 22 | -7 | 26 |
| 15 | Mallorca | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -14 | 26 |
| 16 | Getafe | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 | -4 | 25 |
| 17 | Granada | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | -10 | 24 |
| 18 | Deportivo Alaves | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 24 | -20 | 20 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 20 | 38 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -18 | 19 |
| 20 | Levante | 24 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 50 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 29 | -26 | 14 |
