Villarreal vs Barcelona (4-4)
There’s very little currently that stands within the approach of the city and another Spanish league title.
But this might be one amongst their most stringent remaining tests against surprise strugglers Villarreal.
The Yellow Submarine is only one purpose higher than the drop-zone, but they need to have been in rather more the spectacular overall style of late and will be ready to take some confidence into Tuesday’s match in La Liga. That said, their second performance in Vigo on Sunday won’t inspire a lot of belief.
They relinquished a 2-0 result in losing 3-2 in an exceedingly crunch game at the underside. They’d are seven points higher than the relegation places had they won that thus it was a significant turnaround.
With Celta taking part in Huesca in the week, Villarreal may well realize themselves back within the bottom three unless they’ll spring a surprise here.
Their likelihood is assisted by the probability that the city can rotate their team. They have already got one eye on next Wednesday’s trip to the previous Trafford within the Champions League.
Ernesto Valverde won’t need to require too several probabilities along with his choice on Saturday against Atletico national capital, and he named an undiluted team within the hat convert Espanyol on Saturday.
So it looks nearly inevitable that this may be the sport wherever he rests some key men to avoid burnout, that contributed to Barca’s dying within the last eight of the Champions League last season.
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Goals Villarreal
| 23′ | Villarreal | S. Chukwueze |
| 50′ | Villarreal | K. Ekambi |
| 62′ | Villarreal | Iborra |
| 80′ | Villarreal | C. Bacca |
Goals Barcelona
| 12′ | Barcelona | Coutinho |
| 16′ | Barcelona | Malcom |
| 90+1′ | Barcelona | L. Messi |
| 90+4′ | Barcelona | L. Suarez |
Villarreal Lineups
| 1 | Sergio Asenjo |
| 3 | Álvaro González |
| 4 | Ramiro Funes Mori |
| 6 | Víctor Ruiz |
| 2 | Mario Gaspar |
| 28 | Manuel Morlanes |
| 19 | Santi Cazorla |
| 16 | Alfonso Pedraza |
| 30 | Samuel Chukwueze |
| 10 | Vicente Iborra |
| 17 | Karl Toko Ekambi |
Barcelona Lineups
| 1 | Marc-André ter Stegen |
| 20 | Sergi Roberto |
| 23 | Samuel Umtiti |
| 15 | Clément Lenglet |
| 18 | Jordi Alba |
| 22 | Arturo Vidal |
| 5 | Sergio Busquets |
| 8 | Arthur |
| 14 | Malcom |
| 9 | Luis Suárez |
| 7 | Philippe Coutinho |
Villarreal – Barcelona Match Statistics
Villarreal |
Barcelona |
|
| 16 | Shots Total | 15 |
| 9 | Shots on goal | 9 |
| 5 | Shots off goal | 4 |
| 2 | Shots blocked | 2 |
| 12 | Shots inside box | 9 |
| 4 | Shots outside box | 6 |
| 10 | Fouls | 10 |
| 5 | Corners | 3 |
| 2 | Offsides | 4 |
| 5 | Saves | 5 |
| 32% | Possession Time | 68% |
| 316 | Passes Total | 683 |
| 256 | Accurate Passes | 612 |
| 81% | Accurate Passes% | 90% |