Barcelona vs Aston Villa prediction, odds and how to watch

Raphinha scored three times as Barcelona dismantled Sevilla 3-1 in La Liga, with the visitors' clinical finishing and dominant possession proving far too much for the home side.

Barcelona welcome Aston Villa to Camp Nou on Tuesday night carrying a significant injury burden, while Villa arrive with something to prove in Europe's biggest club competition.

Aston Villa host Viking at Villa Park on Wednesday night in the UEFA Champions League. One side is building momentum. The other has a serious problem with conceding goals.

Paris Saint-Germain bring an unbeaten Champions League record into Tuesday's clash with Barcelona, but the visitors arrive having scored seven goals in their last three European outings. This is a proper test for both sides.

Real Madrid have handed UEFA a 50,000-page dossier branded 'evidence of extraordinary gravity' in the Negreira case, just three weeks before El Clásico. Barcelona's calm rebuttal, that no new proceedings have opened, exposes the gap between rhetoric and reality in a saga UEFA has sat on since 2023.

Alejandro Garnacho has managed just 31 minutes across three substitute appearances in two months at Aston Villa, with academy product George Hemmings and £47m signing Ibrahim Mbaye both preferred by Unai Emery. Reports suggest his loan could be cut short in January, though the deal's conditional obligation to buy complicates any quick exit.

Jose Mourinho and Diego Simeone face off as rival managers for the first time in over a decade when Real Madrid visit Atletico Madrid, with Real's poor Metropolitano record and Barcelona's perfect start raising the stakes of a genuine title-race flashpoint.