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Barcelona vs Eibar Prediction & Betting tips
The mini Christmas break is over, La Liga continues with the year-end spurt: Matchday 16 is in Spain during the week, on Tuesday FC Barcelona will receive the SD Eibar at Camp Nou.
The starting position is clear, as are the expectations: Only one win counts for the Catalans, anything else would be a big surprise and another setback for Ronald Koeman’s team.
Accordingly, clearly beat at Barcelona vs. Eibar also the odds of the best bookmakers in favor of the home side, who are of course the big favorites in this game.
Barcelona :
After all, FC Barcelona are unbeaten in La Liga four games in a row, as strange and unusual as that may sound: It is the longest series without defeat for the Catalans this season.
Before the little Christmas break, Blaugrana finally won again abroad, the 3-0 win in Valladolid on matchday 15 should have calmed the minds, as it was only the second away win of the season.
Not only the victory in itself, but also the manner should have done the team of coach Ronald Koeman good. Barça dominated the game, won comfortably and well deserved. Lionel Messi in particular presented himself as enthusiastic as ever.
But Messi will not be part of the home game against Eibar. The superstar is still on Christmas vacation in his home country Argentina and is the only player to have received a longer special vacation, even if, according to the club, he is officially recovering from an ankle injury.
Against Eibar, there’s no focal point Messi – and no endurance runner Jordi Alba. The left-back saw the fifth yellow in Valladolid and is now suspended, replacing Junior Firpo. Meanwhile, Messi’s absence means Philippe Coutinho and Antoine Griezmann will have more freedom and present themselves.
But even without the six-time world footballer, Barça is the towering favorite. More lucrative than the normal three-way win bet is at Barcelona vs. Eibar’s tip on a handicap win for the Catalans.
Eibar :
Until just before Christmas, the SD Eibar was unbeaten five games, but then this streak broke off abruptly. Because first there was a 1: 3 at home against Real Madrid, then a derby defeat in the small Basque duel with Deportivo Alaves (1: 2) on matchday 15.
Even if the results weren’t right twice, the attitude at Eibar was the right one – and they also seemed to have drawn the right conclusions from the bankruptcy against Real. Because against the Madrilenians, the Basques slept through the initial phase completely and were quickly 0-2 behind. Despite the committed final phase in which they tried everything, it was not enough to equalize, the 1: 3 only came in the final minute.
The aforementioned learning effect from the sleepy start then immediately occurred against Alaves, because here Eibar made the lightning start himself, took the lead 1-0 after four minutes, but ultimately gave the game out of hand.
Against Barça you have to be focused from start to finish at Camp Nou if you want to work out something that can be counted. So far, this has only happened once in the club’s history (with a 2-2 home win) and never at Camp Nou. In the previous six guest appearances, it has only set defeats.
The Basques shouldn’t be underestimated, after all, they have already scored three away wins – more than, for example, FC Barcelona. At the same time, Eibar conceded its two highest league losses in its (still short) history in Spain’s elite class at Camp Nou: 1: 6 they went down in 2017/18, last season there was a 0: 5 in the Catalan metropolis.
Barcelona vs Eibar head to head matches
22.02.20 LL Barcelona Eibar 5 : 0
19.10.19 LL Eibar Barcelona 0 : 3
19.05.19 LL Eibar Barcelona 2 : 2
13.01.19 LL Barcelona Eibar 3 : 0
17.02.18 LL Eibar Barcelona 0 : 2