A key date is coming for FC Barcelona. The Catalan club has just lost against Athletic Club de Bilbao in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey and the fans are demanding the head of Xavi Hernández. But to show their worth, on Saturday, January 20, on the 22nd of LaLiga EA Sports, Barca will have to beat Villarreal at home at the Estadio Olimpico Lluís Companys stadium to turn the tide.
Both squads enter the twenty-second matchday with many casualties due to injury. Barcelona will not be able to count on: Ter Stegen, Gavi, Igor Martínez and Balde. For its part, Villarreal will miss the presence of Foyth, Parejo, Yeremy Pino and Ramón Terrats.
But none of these absences will stop the teams. Both need to add three. The Catalans want to cling to third place to qualify for the next edition of the Champions League. While the ‘yellow submarine’ wants to move away from the relegation zone.
Best bets for Barcelona vs Villarreal
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Both teams will score: Yes – 1.53 in Yagame.
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Who will score?: Lewandowski will score – 1.75 in Yagame.
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Will there be few corners?: Yes – Less than 10.5 – 1.68 in Yagame.
All odds are courtesy of Yajuego, correct at time of publication and subject to change.
There will be goals from both sides
Despite not having a good moment, both Barcelona and Villarreal have been fine in front of goal. Of the last five matches that each team played, the squad led by Marcelino García managed to score in four of them, regardless of the final result.
For its part, the Catalan team, in the same number of games, scored in all of them. However, Xavi’s team is still not good in defense. In their last four games they had one defeat, two wins and a draw, where they scored 12 goals, but they beat their net 10 times.
And if this data is not enough to bet on a both will score, when both met on the third date of LaLiga EA Sports, Barcelona took the victory after a match that ended 4-3.
Best bets Barcelona vs Villarreal
A game with few corners
If there is something that Villarreal and Barcelona have in common, it is corner kicks. Both teams provoke few corner kicks in their games. Of the last five games that the Catalan team played in all competitions, it only generated 21 corner kicks, obtaining an average of 4.2. While Marcelino García’s team, in the same number of games, generated 24 corners, which gives an average of 4.8 per game.
If we take this data into account, the idea that there are less than 10.5 shots from the corner kick does not sound bad.
Lewandowski, the man with the goal
It is known that Robert Lewandowski is burning his last cartridges in football, but that will not stop him from standing out against Villarreal. The Pole in his five previous appearances managed to score in three. Furthermore, since his arrival, he faced Villarreal three times per league and managed to beat their net on three occasions. So if one man has a very special date against the ‘yellow submarine’ it is Robert Lewandoswki.