📊 Form Guide

Barcelona

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Barcelona will be wanting a better result here after a 1-0 La Liga defeat last time out to Alaves.

In that match, Barcelona managed 77% possession and 8 shots on goal with 0 of them on target. Alaves had 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Ibrahim Diabate (45') scored for Alaves.

Their more recent scorelines shine a light on the fact that huge efforts have been put in by the Barcelona backline. Barcelona have been mean at the back, resulting in the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their past 6 matches standing at 2. That sort of trend isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Barcelona:

• haven't lost in the league to Real Betis in their previous 8 games. A decent run, indeed.
• have not been beaten in their last 18 league matches at home. So impressive.

Real Betis

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Real Betis will go into the encounter following on from a 2-1 La Liga win with the downing of Elche CF in their previous game.

In that match, Real Betis managed 45% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Real Betis, the goalscorers were Cucho Hernández (9') and Fornals (68'). Elche got 8 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Fort (41') was the scorer for Elche CF.

Looking at their form, and Real Betis have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals in all. At the back, Real Betis could really do with shoring things up.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Real Betis:

• haven't beaten Barcelona when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Delving into their past head to head results stretching back to 16/09/2023 shows that these encounters have not been kind to Real Betis. They have not managed to come away with any wins at all whereas Barcelona have been superior, finishing as winners in 67 per cent of those ties.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 31 in total at an average of 5.17 goals per meeting.

The last league match between these sides was La Liga match day 15 on 06/12/2025 when it finished Real Betis 3-5 Barcelona.

That day, Real Betis had 38% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Antony (6'), Llorente (85') and Cucho Hernández (90').

At the other end, Barcelona got 16 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Torres (11', 13', 40'), Roony Bardghji (31') and Lamine Yamal (59') scored.

The referee was Francisco José Hernández Maeso.

📰 Team News: Barcelona

Frenkie de Jong (unknown injury) and Lamine Yamal (Muscle tear) are unavailable for Barcelona manager Hansi Flick.

In all likelihood, Barça could go for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, beginning the first half with Joan Garcia, Eric Garcia, Pau Cubarsi, Gerard Martin, Joao Cancelo, Marc Casado, Pedri, Raphinha, Dani Olmo, Marcus Rashford and Robert Lewandowski.

📋 Team News: Real Betis

Real Betis boss Manuel Pellegrini has not got a full squad to pick from. Ángel Ortiz (Shoulder injury) and Aitor Ruibal (Meniscus injury) won’t be making appearances.

From our viewpoint, Béticos appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Pau Lopez, Hector Bellerin, Valentin Gomez, Natan, Ricardo Rodriguez, Marc Roca, Sergi Altimira, Pablo Fornals, Alvaro Fidalgo, A. Ezzalzouli and Cedric Bakambu.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Barcelona will most probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

Conversely, Real Betis may well find it hard finding the net themselves although we do reckon that they could well end up scoring here.

We’re predicting a 3-1 win for Barcelona at full-time.

Peter Guest, 19:03 17/05/2026