Match summary
Elche won 1-0 at home to Villarreal. It was goalless at half-time.
Lucas Boyé put Elche ahead in the 78th minute, set up by Gerard Gumbau.
Villarreal can feel hard done by, creating 0.76 expected goals (xG) from 9 shots to Elche's 0.20 from 5.
Before kick-off
Elche win
17%
Avg odds 5.68
Draw
24%
Avg odds 4.02
Villarreal win
59%
Avg odds 1.61
Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.
Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.