Espanol is always a pain on the neck for Barcelona because Barcelona finds it difficult to win them from their past head to head records. I know that Espanol will take this match to be a do or die affair, since they are already on their way to relegation.
Barcelona on the other side,has noticed that Espanol is always giving them tough time anytime that they clash,and will make sure that they prepare very well to win Espanol, so that they can have an additional three points to their score. This season has been very favourable to Barcelona and Xavi,and I don't think that defeating Espanol will be a problem to them.
Barcelona will have a meaningful derby match, this match is a decisive match for the Blaugrana while Espanyol is very ambitious to delay the victory party of their city rivals and also aiming for points to leave the relegation zone.
But for this edition of the derby, I still favor Barcelona. This season the opponents facing Barcelona are in poor performance and they are even very difficult to get out of the relegation zone. Besides that, this derby match is also the last derby for Basquest because he will leave Barcelona at the end of the season. Given that, the Barca retainer will certainly give the most beautiful farewell gift to his captain.