The growing confidence in the home camp is reflective in their results of late, as Barca currently find themselves on a five-game winning run in the league after scoring nearly a third of their La Liga goals in that stint.
FC Barcelona
A record 91,553 fans turned up to watch Barcelona win the women’s El Clasico at Camp Nou on Wednesday, whilst the club’s 4-0 away demolition in the men’s La Liga El Clasico just prior to the international break still lives fresh in the memory. The growing confidence in the home camp is reflective in their results of late, as Barca currently find themselves on a five-game winning run in the league after scoring nearly a third of their La Liga goals in that stint. Now firmly entrenched in the Champions League placings, their recent upturn in scoring form has coincided with their four-game home La Liga form, with Barcelona not winning more La Liga home games in a row since June 2020.
Another victory here would not only further boost their confidence ahead of their Europa League quarter tie, but could push Barca into the top-two, and that outcome seems likely, considering that Barcelona are unbeaten in the last 18 La Liga home H2Hs against opponents Sevilla.
Sevilla
Sevilla themselves don’t have any European distractions though and won’t be pushovers after conjuring the league’s best current unbeaten run ahead of this trip. Unfortunately for travelling fans, 12 league draws this campaign have downgraded their title race to a top-four battle, though they’d potentially settle for another stalemate here. The travelling Sevilla fans have witnessed five straight away La Liga draws, a sequence last seen back in November 2011. Having alternated between a clean sheet and conceding once across their last six away La Liga games, a 1-1 draw during their last La Liga away game will give Sevilla hope the sequence continues here, as they target a first La Liga clean sheet at Camp Nou since October 2011!
Lucas Ocampos has been Sevilla’s last scorer of the match with four of his last five La Liga goals, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been Barcelona’s first scorer in three of his four La Liga scoring games with the team eventually scoring four goals in each match. Barcelona have won every La Liga home match this season in which they led at half-time.