La Liga
Excellent start and defense of the title so far for Barcelona. Hansi Flick and company kicked off with a resounding 5:0 in their away match against Elche. A new effortless victory followed, this time only 2:0 in the home match against Athletic Bilbao. Thus, Barcelona continues with an impressive home record and now has 20 consecutive home wins in La Liga. In 18 of those, they scored at least two goals, but one of the exceptions was indeed against Rayo with 1:0 last season.
Rayo Vallecano finished last season well in La Liga, but they are not starting the new one in the best way with one point from two matches so far. The new coach Benyat San Jose needs to try to improve things, as Rayo has not started without a win in the first three rounds since the 2018/2019 season, when they were relegated from the elite. However, with this visit to Barcelona, a win now seems unlikely. Additionally, Rayo has only won two of their last 14 away matches in La Liga, and in half of them, they did not score.
Prediction: victory for Barcelona with a clean sheetBarcelona did not have many clean sheets last season, compensating for this with more goals scored. However, in the new season, they have not conceded a goal so far, and Rayo has not been scoring much in their recent away matches. The odds for both teams not to score in the match are quite good in this case, in my opinion, and I choose again for Barcelona to win without conceding a goal.
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