The central match of the 17th round in the Spanish Primera will be held between Villarreal and Barcelona, the two teams, which fight for places in the Champions League. Both future competitors didn’t to their best in the round of 16 of the Spanish Cup, but it will not prevent them from showing some quality football, which will probably be well accepted by the Spanish Primera fans.
Villarreal is a team, which is on the top of the tournament table for two basic reasons. Firstly, it’s because the quality performance in defense both at home and away. Secondly, the Yellow Submarine almost never loses at El Madrigal, having six victories with one draw and one defeat within the eight matches of the Spanish elite league, with 17 scored and 5 conceded goals.
Barcelona come as a bit of surprise this season with their results at Camp Nou. In eight games at their home arena, they’ve got only four victories. On this background, the away results of the team look quite perfect: +6, =1, -1, 23 scored goals and 9 conceded. Wherein, one should mention, that Blaugranas are on the third position in the League by conceding statistics. Only Villarreal and Real Madrid have better stats.
Barcelona are not even close to be called a short pass team. Unlike Villarreal, which can be defined as such. There is a suspicion, that the competition of the two strongest defense lines will not provide upper-football result, so one probably should not expect a super effective football from the upcoming game.
Prediction for the match: under 3.5 goals in the match
