Villarreal – Barcelona Tip La Liga, Matchday 17 on Sunday, 21.12.25 at 16:15 CET
Man, the values for a Villarreal Barcelona bet on the guests are damn high even without an additional odds boost, don’t you think?
I would take the 1.80 flat, given the fact that the Catalans have already won each of their last six competitive games for the most part confidently and mostly even against stronger opponents!
The Yellow Submarine from the east of Spain, on the other hand, recently made negative headlines in the Champions League, then lost to a second division team in the Copa del Rey and on top of that has already lost each of its last six La Liga home games against this opponent.
Villarreal vs. Barcelona AI Predictions:
Akhoumach and Gueye are not available for the home side because they are currently participating in the Africa Cup of Nations together.
These are two convincing personnel reasons why I unreservedly agree with the Villarreal Barcelona AI forecast of our digital betting friend.
His suggestion to select the selection “Win Barcelona with Handicap -1” at odds around 2.92 on his own sports betting app is quite understandable against this background.
Predicted chance of winning:
| Win Villarreal |
Draw |
Victory Barcelona |
| 26.2% |
20.5% |
53.3% |
However, our data model focuses on the second 45 minutes of the game, which were to be quite turbulent.
In any case, the bets “2nd half: FCB over 1.5 goals” and “Highest-scoring half: 2nd half” at 2.45 and 1.90 respectively are based on the same convincing facts in this respect.
On the one hand, Villarreal have conceded 10 of their last 13 La Liga goals after the change of ends, and on the other hand, the Catalans have repeatedly scored goals after the 70th minute of play in 5 of their last 6 games.
In my opinion, these are indeed the ideal statistical conditions for trying to turn these two betting suggestions into hard cash with a little luck.
What you need to know about Villarreal vs. Barcelona betting
- Villarreal conceded ten of their 13 goals in the league this season after the break.
- Only one team has scored more leading goals than Villarreal this La Liga season (12, resulting in 10 wins and 2 draws).
- Before this round, only Elche (5) conceded more goals after the 80th minute than Barcelona (4) away from home in the league.
- Barca have scored 1+ goal(s) after the 70th minute in 5 of the last 6 La Liga matches.
