Elche vs Barcelona LaLiga Match

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Elche have not won any of their last 15 LaLiga games against Barcelona (D4 L11), since their victory (1-0) at Altabix in December 1974.

Barcelona have kept a clean sheet in each of their last eight LaLiga games against Elche (W6 D2), and if they don’t concede a goal in this game, they will record their best run of consecutive games without conceding against a single opponent in the competition (also eight against Real Sociedad between March 2004 and December 2010).

Barcelona are unbeaten in their last eight away games against Elche in all competitions (W5 D3), keeping a clean sheet in the last five (W3 D2). After winning their last two away games against them, they could win three matches on the bounce there for the first time in all competitions.

Elche are winless in their last six LaLiga home games (D4 L2) and could lose back-to-back home games for the first time this season.

Barcelona will play four away games consecutively for the first time in LaLiga history and they could record their longest winning run in the competition this season (four).

Barcelona have won three of their last eight LaLiga games without Lionel Messi (D3 L2) and just one of their last five away matches in the competition without the Argentinian (D2 L2).

Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann has scored four goals in three LaLiga games against Elche, a brace for Real Sociedad in January 2014 and another brace for Atlético de Madrid in April 2015.

Antoine Griezmann has been directly involved in four goals in his last two appearances for Barcelona in LaLiga (two goals and two assists), only one fewer than in his previous 15 appearances this season (three goals and two assists).

Fidel Chaves has scored four of Elche’s last seven goals at home in LaLiga, and if he scores in this match he will be the second player to score against both Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, after Eibar’s Kike García.

This will be the first meeting between managers Jorge Almirón and Ronald Koeman. The Dutchman lost his only previous LaLiga game against an Argentinean coach, 1-0 against Atlético de Madrid’s Diego Simeone in November 2020).