Barcelona travel to Valencia on Thursday evening at the Copa Del Rey quarterfinals.
The Catalan dress has not won the competition since 2020/21 and are following their second part of silver under Hansi Flick. By throwing Valencia 7-1 during them Bonding The meeting at the end of January, the Catalan giants will be full of confidence for the next duel as they seek safe passage to the last four.
Despite enduring the strange rocky piece during the scolding era, Barcelona Find yourself nine games without a loss, securing their place in the last 16 Champions League and moving within the striking distance of the Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid title rivals.
Valencia has not been so lucky this season, however. Los Che is fighting a La Liga removal battle after a shameful start of the campaign under Ruben Baraja, but have shown signs of improvement with Carlos Corberan at the end of the year. The 41-year-old has won four of his seven loaded matches, with the only loss coming to Barcelona.
Here is 90min Guide to the Barca cup walk.
Valencia Vs Barcelona Record with head (last five matches)
Current form (all races)
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Valencia 2-1 Celta Vigo – 02/02/25 |
Barcelona 1-0 Alaves – 02/02/25 |
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Barcelona 7-1 Valencia – 01/26/25 |
Barcelona 2-2 Atalanta – 29/01/25 |
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Valencia 1-0 Real Sociedad – 01/19/25 |
Barcelona 7-1 Valencia – 01/26/25 |
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Ourence 0-2 Valencia – 01/14/25 |
Benfica 4-5 Barcelona – 21/01/25 |
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Seville 1-1 Valencia – 11/01/25 |
Getafe 1-1 Barcelona – 01/18/25 |
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United Kingdom |
N/a |
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United States |
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Thierry Correia is the only guaranteed Valencia absence while it shows the rest of the campaign with an ACL tear. There are also doubts about Star striker Hugo Duro and defender Dimitri Foulquier, both have lost their latest training sessions.
However, Corberan should be able to calculate Javi Gurari, Diego Lopez and Enzo Barnechea despite concerns about their fitness levels after winning the weekend against Celta Vigo.
Corberan may include the signature of the Ivan Jaime deadline in his team after the winger joined Porto, but Giorgi Mamardashvili owned by Liverpool could be replaced by Cup goalkeeper Soleievski.
Valencia predicted the VS Barcelona lineup (4-2-3-1): Dimitrievski; Aarons, terraga, mosquito, gaya; War, Pepelu; Lopez, Almeida, Rioja; Sadic.
Barcelona remains without the quartet of Dani Olmo, Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, Andreas Christenssen and Marc Bernal, while Gavi is also a doubt about Thursday's match after suffering a bad head injury in the weekend victory over Alaves.
The Spaniard has been trained away from the rest of his teammates in recent days and is unlikely to be endangered by Valencia even if she is appropriate.
Sliding can make some changes to its formation elsewhere, with chances probably submitted to peripheral figures. Wojciech Szczesny is likely to start between the sticks, however, with the Barcelona chief confirming that international Poland is his first choice.
Barcelona predicted the VS Valencia lineup (4-2-3-1): Szczesny; Kounde, Garcia, Cubersi, Balde; Casado, de jong; Yamal, Lopez, Raphinha; Lewandowski.
Corberan has improved Valencia, but they were given a final control of reality in their last pillar with seven goals in the hands of Barcelona. While the outcome line may not be so pronounced in this case, the Catalan side must end the comfortable winners – especially if the hosts make changes to their XI.
Barcelona may have an eye on the weekend journey to Sevilla but their leadership for the Champions League 16 means shortly should not be too busy. Flick will begin a strong side in Valencia, likely shaking his frightened triumvirate of Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski.