Match summary
Villarreal beat Valencia 2-0. Villarreal led 2-0 at half-time.
Paco Alcácer put Villarreal ahead in the 14th minute, set up by Gerard Moreno and Gerard Moreno made it 2-0 in the 44th minute, set up by Santiago Cazorla.
The chances backed that up: Villarreal created 2.41 expected goals (xG) from 17 shots to Valencia's 0.18 from 4.
Before kick-off
Villarreal win
45%
Avg odds 2.13
Draw
26%
Avg odds 3.62
Valencia win
29%
Avg odds 3.33
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.