🔆Pre-match facts about Villarreal vs Barcelona🔆
✔️Villarreal are winless in their last 21 LaLiga games against Barcelona (D6 L15), their worst run against “Blaugranas” in the top-flight, having won their previous three meetings against them between 2007 and 2008.
✔️Villarreal are winless their last ten LaLiga meetings against Barcelona at home (D4 L6), drawing three out of the last four (L1).
✔️Barcelona have lost their two LaLiga games in Valencia this season (against Levante and Valencia). They could lose three LaLiga matches in a row in Valencia for the first time since 1960 (also a run of three).
✔️Villarreal have only lost three games at home in LaLiga this season, while two of them were against teams currently in the relegation zone (Leganés and Espanyol). This is their fewest number of home defeats after as many games of a campaign since 2015/16 (two).
✔️Barcelona's total of 70 (W21 D7 L5) is their fewest after 33 games of a single campaign in LaLiga since 2007/08 (61 points - W17 D10 L6).
✔️Barcelona have already conceded seven penalties in LaLiga this season (six penalty goals conceded), their most in a single top-flight campaign since 2007/08 (11).
✔️Villarreal’s Gerard Moreno has been directly involved in five goals in his last five matches at La Cerámica in LaLiga (three goals and two assists), just one fewer than in his previous 13 home games in the competition (six, four goals and two assists).
✔️Lionel Messi has been involved in a goal in each of his last seven LaLiga games against Villarreal (six goals and two assists).
✔️Villarreal’s Santi Cazorla has been involved in a goal in each of his last two appearances against Barcelona in LaLiga, one goal and one assist.
✔️Barcelona’s Quique Setién has lost three of his four managerial LaLiga games at La Cerámica (W1), the last three: one in charge of Las Palmas and two in charge of Real Betis.
✔️Villarreal are winless in their last 21 LaLiga games against Barcelona (D6 L15), their worst run against “Blaugranas” in the top-flight, having won their previous three meetings against them between 2007 and 2008.
✔️Villarreal are winless their last ten LaLiga meetings against Barcelona at home (D4 L6), drawing three out of the last four (L1).
✔️Barcelona have lost their two LaLiga games in Valencia this season (against Levante and Valencia). They could lose three LaLiga matches in a row in Valencia for the first time since 1960 (also a run of three).
✔️Villarreal have only lost three games at home in LaLiga this season, while two of them were against teams currently in the relegation zone (Leganés and Espanyol). This is their fewest number of home defeats after as many games of a campaign since 2015/16 (two).
✔️Barcelona's total of 70 (W21 D7 L5) is their fewest after 33 games of a single campaign in LaLiga since 2007/08 (61 points - W17 D10 L6).
✔️Barcelona have already conceded seven penalties in LaLiga this season (six penalty goals conceded), their most in a single top-flight campaign since 2007/08 (11).
✔️Villarreal’s Gerard Moreno has been directly involved in five goals in his last five matches at La Cerámica in LaLiga (three goals and two assists), just one fewer than in his previous 13 home games in the competition (six, four goals and two assists).
✔️Lionel Messi has been involved in a goal in each of his last seven LaLiga games against Villarreal (six goals and two assists).
✔️Villarreal’s Santi Cazorla has been involved in a goal in each of his last two appearances against Barcelona in LaLiga, one goal and one assist.
✔️Barcelona’s Quique Setién has lost three of his four managerial LaLiga games at La Cerámica (W1), the last three: one in charge of Las Palmas and two in charge of Real Betis.
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