Barcelona vs Villarreal LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics ✉️
Barcelona have avoided defeat in their last 22 Laliga games against Villarreal (W16 D6), since a defeat at Camp Nou in March 2008 (1-2).
Barcelona have won their last nine home Laliga games against Villarreal; indeed, the last time the Yellow Submarine avoided defeat at Camp Nou in the competition was in January 2010 (1-1).
Barcelona have only lost their opening league game in one of the last 11 Laliga seasons, 0-1 vs Athletic in the 2019/20.
The last time the Blaugrana side lost their opening LaLiga game in consecutive seasons was in 1982 and 1983.
Barcelona have only lost their opening Laliga games once previously when playing at home, in December 1939 (0-1vs Espanyol).
Since then, the Blaugrana have won 35 of their 40 such home games (D5), including the last eight in a row. Barcelona have only lost one of their last 12 Laliga games (W8 D3), 1-2 vs Osasuna in their last home Laliga game.
The Blaugrana side last lost two home league games in a row in April 2016 under Luis Enrique Martínez.
Villarreal have only lost three of their last 11 away LaLiga games (W7 D1), after losing five of their previous six away from home in the competition.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi has been involved in 20 goals in his last 20 Laliga appearances against Villarreal (14 goals and six assists), and has scored eight goals in his eight games against them at Camp Nou in the competition.
Gerard Moreno has been involved in five of Villarreal's last six goals in Laliga, scoring four goals and making one assist all them in the second half of play.
FC Barcelona boss Ronald Koeman has failed to win in his three managerial games against Villarrreal in all competitions (D1 L2), losing the only previous one in LaLiga (0-3 at La Cerámica as Valencia manager in January 2008).
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Villarreal boss Unai Emery has lost each of his 12 away games at Camp Nou in all competitions, with his biggest margin of defeat as a manager coming in the most recent one -1-6 as Paris SG manager in the second leg of the last 16 in the 2016/17 Champions League.
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