📏 Form Guide

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-3 La Liga 2 losing effort in their last game against Real Zaragoza.

In that match, Racing de Santander had 71% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Racing de Santander, the goals were scored by Gustavo Puerta (82') and Manex Lozano (94'). For their opponents, Real Zaragoza got 9 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Kenan Kodro (4', 21', 54') scored for Real Zaragoza.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games where Racing de Santander have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Racing de Santander have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 9 goals on the way. We shall soon see if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Barcelona

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Barcelona will go into the meeting following a 3-2 Spanish Super Cup win to beat Real Madrid in their last outing.

In that match, Barcelona managed 68% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. For Barcelona, the goals were scored by Raphinha (36', 73') and Robert Lewandowski (45'). At the other end, Real Madrid had 12 shots at goal with 10 on target. Júnior (45') and García (45') scored for Real Madrid.

A run of steadfast displays by the Barcelona defenders has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 1 from their past 6 fixtures combined. Over that same time, their forwards have scored 15.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings going back to 22/09/2009 reveals that these encounters have not been fruitful for Racing de Santander. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all whereas Barcelona have just been too good for them, getting wins in 100% of those games where they have faced each other.

A combined sum of 20 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 1 of them for Los Racinguistas and 19 created by Barça. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was La Liga match day 27 on 11/03/2012 when it finished Racing de Santander 0-2 Barcelona.

The referee was Carlos Del Cerro Grande.

📰 Team News: Barcelona

Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Gavi (Arthroscopy) and Andreas Christensen (Ligament tear) are those who can’t be considered.

🔮 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Barcelona will probably be in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of their chances.

However, Racing de Santander might well find it a difficult task to score themselves but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be hitting back at some stage here, too.

We’re predicting a decent 1-3 winning score for Barcelona after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 19:00 15/01/2026