Both the home- and away side have had their share of problems so far, but a win and three points in this highly important match would definitely provide a boost. Let's hear it for Espanyol - Elche!
- Espanyol have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Elche have the most conceded goals (24) in La Liga
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Espanyol form and stats
The total La Liga stats playing at home this season for Espanyol are 1-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
The club members are hoping that Espanyol will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Osasuna (placed 7th). The first defeat after going unbeaten in three league matches.
Before that, Espanyol had a home game versus Real Valladolid which ended with a victory 1-0.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Espanyol's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 7 games, won 5 matches, drawn 1 and lost 1.
Espanyol are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 5 games.
Elche form and stats
The visitors, who have the most conceded goals (24) in La Liga, are W0-D1-L4 on the road this term. That's in the La Liga. Elche are desperate to end a ten-game winless run.
The manager Quintana was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero. Elche suffered a 0-3 loss to Real Madrid (placed 1st). Midfielder Mascarell was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.12. Mascarell hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 63 successful passes (of 66 total).
A 2-2 draw at Valencia's stadium before that.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Elche when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 5 matches with the visitors losing 2 times, drawing 1 and winning 2 games.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Elche are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 3 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
Elche have put together a streak of 4 consecutive matches without losing (2-2-0) when facing Espanyol.The games between these clubs have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 3 sending-offs from the last six encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Sanmartín Mato 7 goals |  E. Expósito Jaén 2 goals |  M. Braithwaite 2 goals |
Espanyol missing players
Elche missing players
| Espanyol | Elche | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 17 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 14 | 24 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 70% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 90% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 70% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 30% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 50% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 60% | 50% |
| 4.9 | 7.4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.4 | 4 |
| 4.8 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7.8 | 6.4 |
| 1.8 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 5 | 3.7 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 12.5 | 14.4 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 4.8 | 7.4 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| 35% | 40% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 12.9 | 13.2 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 19.6 | 16.1 |
| 4.4 | 4.6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 8.6 | 7.4 |
- All of Elche's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Elche have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Elche have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Elche have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Elche have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Elche have the most conceded goals (14) away in La Liga
- Elche have the most conceded goals (24) in La Liga
- Elche have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in La Liga
- Elche have the the worst goal difference (-11) away in La Liga
- Elche have the the worst goal difference (-18) in La Liga
- Elche have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Elche have yet to win a game.
- Elche haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Elche is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Espanyol have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Espanyol haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 17 | 28 |
| 2 | FC Barcelona | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 20 | 25 |
| 3 | Real Sociedad | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 22 |
| 4 | Atletico Madrid | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 20 |
| 5 | Real Betis | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| 6 | Athletic Club | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 18 |
| 7 | Osasuna | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| 8 | Valencia | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 15 |
| 9 | Villarreal | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 10 | Rayo Vallecano | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 12 |
| 11 | Real Valladolid | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 11 |
| 12 | Sevilla | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 13 | Almería | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Celta de Vigo | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -9 | 10 |
| 15 | Mallorca | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 16 | Espanyol | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 9 |
| 17 | Getafe | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 9 |
| 18 | Girona | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 8 |
| 19 | Cadiz | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -13 | 7 |
| 20 | Elche | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | -18 | 3 |
