The Catalan giants are currently eighth in La Liga, while Elche occupy 16th position, and here Sports Mole rounds up the team news for the two sides ahead of the contest.

BARCELONA vs. ELCHE

BARCELONA

Out: Sergino Dest (back), Memphis Depay (hamstring), Jordi Alba (hamstring), Sergi Roberto (tendon), Pedri (muscle), Ansu Fati (hamstring), Martin Braithwaite (knee), Dani Alves (ineligible), Gerard Pique (suspended)

Doubtful: Ousmane Dembele (unspecified)

Sports Mole's predicted XI: Ter Stegen; Araujo, Lenglet, Garcia, Mingueza; Nico, Busquets, F de Jong; Gavi, L de Jong, Ezzalzouli

ELCHE

Out: Pedro Bigas (groin)

Doubtful: None

Sports Mole's predicted XI: Badia; Palacios, Roco, Gonzalez, Barragan; Morente, Marcone, Mascarell, Fidel; Perez, Boye

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Real Madrid	33	26	6	1	71	22	49	84
2	Girona Girona	33	22	5	6	69	40	29	71
3	Barcelona	32	21	7	4	64	37	27	70
4	Atletico Madrid Atletico	33	20	4	9	62	39	23	64
5	Athletic Bilbao	33	16	10	7	53	33	20	58
6	Real Sociedad	33	13	12	8	46	35	11	51
7	Real Betis Betis	32	12	12	8	40	38	2	48
8	Valencia	32	13	8	11	35	34	1	47
9	Getafe	33	10	13	10	41	45	-4	43
10	Villarreal	32	11	9	12	51	55	-4	42
11	Osasuna	32	11	6	15	37	46	-9	39
12	Alaves Alaves	33	10	8	15	31	38	-7	38
13	Sevilla	32	9	10	13	41	45	-4	37
14	Las Palmas Las Palmas	33	10	7	16	30	41	-11	37
15	Rayo Vallecano	32	7	13	12	27	39	-12	34
16	Mallorca	32	6	13	13	26	38	-12	31
17	Celta Vigo	33	7	10	16	37	50	-13	31
18	Cadiz Cadiz	32	4	13	15	22	45	-23	25
19	Granada	32	3	9	20	33	61	-28	18
20	Almeria	33	1	11	21	32	67	-35	14