Match Preview: VCF vs FCB

History:

Valencia CF will welcome FC Barcelona in Saturday showdown at Mestalla at 4 pm kick-off time(CET )on Matchday 21of LaLiga Santander. Valencia CF are unbeaten at home so far this season. Albert Celades’s side will be looking to keep the unbeaten run at home going against LaLiga’s pacesetters.

Valencia CF have beaten FC Barcelona in the last three LaLiga meetings as hosts Valencia CF 1 FC Barcelona 1 Rodrigo Moreno broke the deadlock on the hour mark and Jordi Alba made it 1-1 on the 26th of November 2017.

The following season Ezequiel Garay opened the scoring in the 2nd minute of the game and Lionel Messi made it 1-1 on the halfway mark of the first half for back-to-back draws at Mestalla.

Later that season came the most remarkably memorable Copa del Rey win of the past decade with two strikes, one from Kevin Gameiro and another from Rodrigo Moreno which went down in the history books and marked a fitting end to the Club’s Centenary.

Form:

VCF

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FCB

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Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano.

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