Both teams played in the Champions League earlier this week. Barcelona failed to score and could only manage a draw away from home against Olympiacos (0-0). Sevilla remained strong at home, however, by beating Spartak Moscow (2-1).
Barcelona has amazing season in La Liga – they didn’t lose any match this season and has nine victories in the last ten games. This game will be played at Camp Nou stadium, where Barcelona have a brilliant statistic against their opponents from Seville.
Ernesto Valverde’s side are undefeated in their last 12 home games against Sevilla in all competitions, winning 11 and drawing just 1, and have managed to keep a clean sheet in their last 3.
Catalan club are really good in defence this season – they conceded only three goals in this La Liga season. The last five games showed how good are Barca in defence – they conceded just only one goal, against Atletico Madrid three weeks ago.
Also Sevilla aren’t superb team this season – they have scored four goals in the last five games. So, there’s a chances that Barcelona will have another game with clean sheet.
As I said, Barcelona playing a really good football right now but if we look to the last five matches we’ll see that the total number of goals aren’t more than three.
Two goals in last game against Bilbao Athletic, the same result against Malaga, 1-1 draw with Atletico, and two victories on the same result (3-0) against Las Palmas and Girona.
Also there’s a lot of chances that Lionel Messi will score at least one goal today. He’s amazing this season – at this stage last season he had 9 goals to his name, but this season he has 12 goals. The majority of his goals have been scored at home (9), including hat-tricks against Espanyol and Eibar.
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