EspanyolAttacking momentumBarcelona
Preview
- Espanyol host Barcelona on 2026-01-03 at 20:00 GMT, as part of week 18 of the 2025-2026's La Liga in RCDE Stadium.
- With the data available to us, Manolo Gonzalez and H. Flick have not met as managers before.
- Espanyol currently rank 5th (with 33 pts), versus Barcelona at 1st on 46 pts.
- Espanyol report 3 missing players: C. Pickel (International duty), J. Puado (Knee Injury), R. Terrats (Muscle Injury) whereas Barcelona report 4 missing players: A. Christensen (Knee Injury), Gavi (Knee Injury), R. Araujo (Personal Reasons), D. Olmo (Shoulder Injury).
- Projected to use a four-defender base in 4-4-2, Espanyol should be met by Barcelona's expected 4-2-3-1.
- Both sides left it all on the pitch: Espanyol won 2-1 against Athletic Bilbao, and Barcelona secured a victory 2-0 over Villarreal.
- Espanyol (4-0-1) and Barcelona (5-0-0) head into this in winning moods from their past 5 matches.
- Barcelona hold the upper hand H2H: of 42 meetings, they've triumphed 28 times, conceded 3 times and shared 11 draws.
- 1-3 leads the pack at 14% of all our users' guesses, with 1-2 next on 11.8%.
- Expect Barcelona to edge a 1-2 win: their 6-1-2 record on the road and 3.11 goals per away match tip the balance.
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Match Info
Most Guessed Score
1
2
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Team Kits
Espanyol
Barcelona
Events
HT 0 - 0 | |||
| 46' | |||
| 60' | |||
| 64' | |||
| 64' | |||
| 64' | |||
| 75' | |||
| 77' | P. Lozano | ||
| 77' | M. Gonzalez | ||
| 82' | |||
| 82' | |||
| 86' | 0 - 1 | ||
| 90' | 0 - 2 | ||
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Espanyol is going head to head with Barcelona on 3/1/2026 20:00 GMT at RCDE Stadium for the Spain La Liga. Our users most predicted score for this game is 1 - 2. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Espanyol v Barcelona H2H statistics!