📏 Form Guide

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-3 La Liga 2 loss in their previous game against Real Zaragoza.

In that match, Racing de Santander had 71% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Racing de Santander, goals were scored by Gustavo Puerta (82') and Manex Lozano (94'). At the other end, Real Zaragoza got 9 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Kenan Kodro (4', 21', 54') was the scorer 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 over Real Madrid in their last outing.

In that match, Barcelona managed 68% possession and 16 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Barcelona, the goalscorers were Raphinha (36', 73') and Robert Lewandowski (45'). For their opponents, Real Madrid had 12 attempts on goal with 10 of them 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

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 22/09/2009 shows that these encounters have been disappointments for Racing de Santander. They’ve not managed to come away with any victories whatsoever while Barcelona have managed to find a way, beating them in 100 per cent of those matches played.

A total of 20 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 1 of them for Los Racinguistas and 19 coming from Barça. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.33.

The last league clash between the two was La Liga match day 27 on 11/03/2012 when it ended Racing de Santander 0-2 Barcelona.

The referee was Carlos Del Cerro Grande.

📋 Team News: Barcelona

Barcelona boss Hansi Flick has some current player fitness concerns. Gavi (Arthroscopy) and Andreas Christensen (Ligament tear) are not ready for selection.

🔮 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, 17:00 15/01/2026