Athletic Bilbao - Levante
Levante have never won on five trips to Athletic in the top flight (two draws, three defeats).The Valencians have scored just twice on these five visits.
Ahtletic have won only two of their last five league games at home (three defeats).
Levante have only lost one of their last four league away games.
Five of Levante's last seven goals in Liga BBVA have come in the first half.
Athletic have scored the most headed goals in the league this season (17).
The Basque side have also scored the most goals from crosses (20).
Only Barcelona and Real Madrid have picked up more points than Levante in the second half of the season (28).
Fernando Llorente has netted nine headed goals this season, the most by a player in the Spanish top flight since Raúl in 2000/01.
Levante have won over twice as many league games with Caicedo playing (43%) as without him (20%).
Fernando Llorente has not scored at San Mamés since the end of February.
Atletico Madrid - Malaga
In 55 top-flight meetings between the sides, Atletico have won 30 times, vs 10 for Malaga and 15 draws.Malaga have managed just two wins in their 27 trips to the Vicente Calderon in Primera, one of them coming last season (2-0).
Atletico are unbeaten in five league games, and have won four. They have not gone unbeaten in six straight league games this term.
Quique Sanchez Flores' men have lost just one of their last 11 league games. Taking 22 points from the 33 available.
The colchoneros have scored in their last 12 Liga BBVA matches.
With 17 goals, Sergio Aguero is Atletico's top league scorer this season. The Argentine is currently the only player to have scored in seven straight league appearances this season.
Pellegrini's men are on their best run of the season in the league: three straight wins.
Julio Baptista has scored five of Malaga's eight goals in this streak.
Malaga have lost just one of their last seven league games, taking 16 points from 21 and rising from 20th to 15th as a result.
Barcelona - Espanyol
The last six league meetings between Barcelona and Espanyol at the Camp Nou have seen only two home wins, with one away win and three draws.Barcelona have won three of their last five meetings with Espanyol in the top flight.
Espanyol are on a run of six league games without a win on the road, failing to score in the last five.
Leo Messi has scored in five of Barcelona's last seven league games at home.
Barcelona have scored over twice as many goals as Espanyol (89-42) in the league this season.
Guardiola's men have scored the most goals from outside the area in La Liga this season (14), while their opponents today have scored the fewest (two).
Barcelona have opened the scoring in 30 league games this season, more than any other side.
Barcelona are unbeaten with Carlos Puyol on the pitch in the league this season.
There have been three red cards in the last five league meetings between these sides.
Just three teams (Almeria, Hercules and Getafe) have picked up fewer points in the second half of the season than Espanyol (14).
Getafe - Almeria
Getafe have taken just 11 points from their last 10 league games at home.The Madrid side are in the relegation zone for the first time this season. After matchday 18 they were 14 points clear of the bottom three.
Almeria have been in the bottom three since the first matchday of 2011.
Failure to win this game would see the Andalucians relegated to Segunda.
Michel's men have lost five of their last six league games.
Getafe are the poorest team in the second half of the season, taking just 10 points from 15 games.
Manu del Moral has bagged five of Getafe's last nine league goals.
Almeria have conceded the second-most goals in Liga BBVA this season (59), while Getafe are fourth in this (55).
Getafe are unbeaten in three top flight games at home to Almeria, drawing two.
Almeria have only won one league match after going behind this season.
Getafe are yet to record a win in the league this season after conceding the first goal at the Coliseum.
Hercules - Racing Santander
Hercules have won 12 of their 23 meetings with Racing in the top flight.Only against Valencia (14) have the Herculanos managed more top flight wins than Racing.
Racing have managed just two wins in 11 top flight trips to Hercules' ground, though one of them was on their last visit in 1996 (1-0).
The meeting earlier this season was the first-ever goalless draw between the sides in La Liga.
Hercules have taken just seven points from the last 27 available.
Miroslav Djukic's five league games as Hercules' manager have seen them win two, lose two and draw one.
Rosenburg has scored in Hercules' last two league matches, though is yet to score in three in a row this season.
Marcelino's men have lost the most points thanks to goals conceded in the last 10 minutes of league matches this season (six).
Racing have scored the highest proportion of their goals from outside the area in Liga BBVA this season (26%).
Racing have managed to claw back just four points after conceding first in the league this season, a joint-low with Espanyol and Osasuna.
Mallorca - Villarreal
Villarreal have managed just one win in their last six away games in the league.Mallorca have not had two consecutive results of the same type in the league in any of their last 10 games.
Mallorca have won just one of their last 14 league meetings with the Yellow Submarine, losing nine.
Last season Mallorca ended a run of eight meetings without a win at home against Villarreal in La Liga.
Paradas Romero has been referee for two league meetings between Mallorca and Villarreal, with one win for the islanders and one draw.
The only game that Aouate previously missed this season in the league saw Mallorca beat Osasuna 2-0.
The islanders are the lowest-scoring team in the last 15 minutes of Liga BBVA matches this season (five goals).
Since recovering from injury, Nilmar has played in 12 league matches, but scored just once.
Mallorca have made the fewest substitutions in La Liga this season (84), nine fewer than Atletico and Villarreal.
Real Zaragoza - Osasuna
Real Zaragoza are without a win in their last four league meetings with Osasuna (one draw, three defeats).The manos have failed to score in all four of these games.
At home however Zaragoza have won four of their last six games against the side from Pamplona.
Zaragoza have won three of their last four league games.
Osasuna have only won one of their last five games in La Liga, losing their last two away games.
Zaragoza have lost the most games at home after conceding first this season in Liga BBVA (six).
The manos' midfielders have scored 24 league goals this season, more than any other side's in Primera.
Javier Aguirre's men have received the most red cards in Liga BBVA this season (nine).
Zaragoza have won their last four league games at home, and seven of the last nine.
Prior to this run, they had won just seven of their last 26 at la Romareda.
Sevilla - Real Madrid
Sevilla are unbeaten at home in the second half of the season (five wins and two draws).Real Madrid are on a run of six games unbeaten on the road in the league, winning five.
These two sides have taken the most penalties in the league this season (23 between them) and scored the most (10 each).
Sevilla and Real Madrid have not drawn in the league since 2005, when a draw saw the merengues condemned to second place, as it could this time.
The whites have won on just one of their last seven league trips to Sevilla, losing five.
In the last seven seasons, Real Madrid have conceded an average of 2.6 goals per league game at the Sanchez Pizjuan.
Real Madrid have won all four league games in which at least one of Di MarÃa or Carvalho has been absent this season.
Karim Benzema has scored in six of his last seven league appearances (nine goals).
16 of Sevilla's last 20 goals at home against Real Madrid in Liga BBVA have come in the first half, 12 in the first 35 minutes.
Sevilla and Real Madrid have scored the most goals in the last 15 minutes of the first half in Liga BBVA this season (12, level with Barcelona).
Iker Casillas has conceded an average of 2.38 goals per game at the Sanchez Pizjuan in the league, more than at any other stadium.
Sporting Gijon - Deportivo La Coruna
Deportivo have won just one of their last six league encounters with Sporting at El Molinon.Sporting have won three of their last five top flight clashes with Depor, drawing the other two.
Preciado's men are unbeaten at home in the league since defeat to Malaga on the 2nd January, bagging six wins and two draws since.
The Galicians have failed to score in seven of their last 10 league games.
Sporting are on a run of five league games without shipping a goal at home in the league, their best run in the top flight since 1989.
Sporting have scored the fewest left-footed goals in Liga BBVA this season (three).
Depor have scored the fewest goals in the competition in 2010/11 (27), as well as the fewest in the first half (nine).
Deportivo are the only side in Liga BBVA yet to concede a goal from a penalty this season.
Miguel de las Cuevas has scored four of Sporting's last eight league goals, having scored just once before this run.
Sporting remain the only side yet to win in Liga BBVA after conceding first this season.
Valencia - Real Sociedad
Real Sociedad have won just one of their last 22 league meetings with Valencia (2-0 in 2001/02).The Donostierras have won only two of their last 15 league matches at Valencia, both by a score of 1-0.
The last meeting between the sides at Valencia ended 3-3 and saw the txuri-urdin relegated for the first time in 40 seasons.
Emery's men have lost three of their last four league games at home.
Lasarte's men are on a run of seven straight league defeats away from home: no side has lost eight in a row in the competition this season.
Real Sociedad are the third poorest-side on the road in Liga BBVA this season (three wins and a draw) and have shipped 39 goals (the most).
Valencia have scored the highest proportion of their goals in the last 15 minutes of league games this season, while Real Sociedad have conceded the most in this period (17).
The Blanquiazules have conceded the most goals from direct free kicks this season (four), all of them coming from left-footed players.
Real Sociedad have lost the most matches after scoring first in the league this season (six), while Valencia have won the most after conceding first (six).
