Barcelona - Sevilla Football prediction

Barcelona and Sevilla play at the Camp Nou in a 9th round match of the Primera Division. The history of direct matches played at this stadium favors the home team, which in the last 5 matches has won 5. Indeed, in the last confrontation at this stage, for the Primera Division on 04-11-2017, Barcelona won by (2 -1 ). The goals of the match were scored by Paco Alcácer (23 'and 65') for Barcelona and G. Pizarro (59 ') for Sevilla.

Analysis of Barcelona
After 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, the home team is in 2nd place, having won 15 points. In the final match, they drew 1-1 with Valencia (1-1), after having drawn 1-1 home against Athletic Bilbao (1-1). In the last 4 games for the league, Barcelona have won 2 and 2 draws, having won 8 points in 12 chances.

In this competition, you have not lost any of the last 4 games in your stadium. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 6 of the last 8 games, but his attack has been regularly marked as he scored at least one goal in each of the last eight matches in this competition. In their home matches there is a tendency towards goals, since 44 in 60 they finished with More of 2.5 goals in the marker. In 8 games in this competition, managed to turn the score in 2 of the 4 games in which he suffered the first goal.

Barcelona are among La Liga's top-ranked teams, but they have yet to present their best football, have encountered difficulties in their games and need to evolve, as the quality of their squad can yield much more. The team comes from 4 games without winning where they drew 3 and lost 1 and the big problem has been the defensive performance, since it has failed several times in the sector, including with Piqué making bad games in the last rounds, but the attack still continues to be the most positive of the national. Playing at home like this Saturday's game, he has 2 wins and 2 draws and is the team that scored the most goals in this type of situation with 15 goals, an average of almost 4 per game, being a team that controls the game from the beginning, but has left many spaces behind, especially against teams with speed. For the national championship, coach Ernesto Valverde is expected to keep up the last round when he drew with Valencia away from home, Lionel Messi has 6 goals and 4 assists in 8 games.
Analysis of Seville
The visiting team is currently in 1st place with 16 points, after 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. In the penultimate match, I won out to Eibar by (1-3). In the last match, I won to Celta de Vigo by (2-1). In the championship, the Sevilla won 9 points in 12 possible, after 3 victories and 1 defeat in the last 4 games that played as a visitor.

For this competition, it registers the sequence of 4 victories in the last games. Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 6 of the last 8 games for this competition. In the last 9 away games for all competitions there has been 1 period that stands out: suffered 6 of his 8 goals between the minutes (76'-90 ').

Sevilla have been doing great and surprising campaign in the Spanish Championship where it leads, it comes in excellent sequence of 4 victories and goes in search of another positive result to remain in the first place. The great asset of the team has been the offensive power, having scored 18 goals, being the second best attack just behind his next opponent, so much that he scored incredible 14 goals in the last 4 matches, but the defense still needs some adjustments and will need to be very careful to stop Messi and Suarez. Playing away from home, such as starting this Saturday, Sevilla come from 2 excellent wins where they scored 9 goals, but it is worth noting that conceded goals in all 4 games as a visitor. For the duel against Barcelona, ​​coach Pablo Machin has no problems in the team that has been playing in the last games and goes to the field with the best.