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Team News: Valencia vs. Barcelona injury, suspension list, predicted XIs

sportsmole.co.uk, 15 December 2023, 20:00
Barcelona will be aiming to bounce back from successive defeats when they travel to Valencia in Spain's top flight on Saturday.

The La Liga champions are currently fourth in the table, seven points off leaders Girona, while Valencia's recent troubles have seen them drop into 11th, and here Sports Mole rounds up the team news.

VALENCIA vs. BARCELONA

VALENCIA

Out: Gabriel Paulista (suspended), Javi Guerra (suspended), Jose Gaya (muscle)

Doubtful: Andre Almeida (back)

Sports Mole's predicted XI: Mamardashvili; Correia, Mosquera, Diakhaby, Gasiorowski; Foulquier, Guillamon, Pepelu, Perez; Lopez, Duro

BARCELONA

Out: Inigo Martinez (muscle), Marcos Alonso (back), Gavi (knee), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (back)

Doubtful: None

Sports Mole's predicted XI: Pena; Kounde, Araujo, Christensen, Cancelo; Pedri, De Jong, Gundogan; Raphinha, Lewandowski, Felix

For data analysis of the most likely results, scorelines and more for this match please click here.

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