This match features two teams living in the basement of the La Liga, Valencia holding 14th place and Elche lying 19th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
- Valencia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Copa Del Rey. That game was an away game at Sevilla, so at least Valencia are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Valencia form and stats
2 victories, 5 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Valencia have to build on here at Estadio de Mestalla in the La Liga. Two draws in a row at home now for Valencia.
In their previous game, the manager J. Gracia Carlos led his Valencia to a defeat in the Copa Del Rey match away at Sevilla. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estadio de Mestalla. Prior to that, an away loss at Atletico Madrid in the La Liga.
Valencia lost the game against Sevilla in the first half with a 0-3 deficit and could never come back from that.
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 Valencia's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won two matches, drawn one and lost zero.
A decent goal production from Valencia in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded.
Elche form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their La Liga travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. Elche are desperate to end a 13-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Valencia fixture.
Home advantage was not enough for Elche in their previous game, as they lost their La Liga-match, hosting Barcelona, 0-2. Before that, Elche travelled to Real Valladolid and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.
It's a bit worrying for Elche that their goalkeeper Edgar Badia made six saves in the Barcelona game last time out, but still couldn't prevent the loss.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Elche when being an outsider away as they are today, we find six matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing three and winning two games.
Elche find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Elche have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Elche - Valencia 2-1, played this season. Head-2-head stats last five meetings: three - zero - two (Valencia wins - draws - Elche wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Soler Barragán 6 goals |  M. Gómez González 5 goals |  M. Vallejo Galván 4 goals |
Valencia missing players
Elche missing players
| Valencia | Elche | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 26 | 15 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 8 | 16 |
| 29 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 25 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 89% |
| 75% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 62% | 72% |
| 55% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 39% |
| 35% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 38% | 28% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 70% | 70% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 56% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 38% | 22% |
| 20% | 30% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 2.4 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.2 | 8.6 | 8.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.7 | 6.6 | 5.9 |
| 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2 |
| 33% | 44% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 42% | 44% |
- Valencia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Valencia haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Atletico Madrid | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 28 | 47 |
| 2 | Real Madrid | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 18 | 40 |
| 3 | Barcelona | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 39 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 7 | 22 | 37 |
| 4 | Sevilla | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 36 |
| 5 | Villarreal | 20 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 34 |
| 6 | Real Sociedad | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 31 |
| 7 | Granada | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 34 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 | -10 | 28 |
| 8 | Real Betis | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 26 | 34 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 22 | -8 | 27 |
| 9 | Athletic Club | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 24 |
| 10 | Celta de Vigo | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -7 | 24 |
| 11 | Cadiz | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -10 | 24 |
| 12 | Levante | 19 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 27 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -1 | 23 |
| 13 | Getafe | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 23 |
| 14 | Valencia | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | -3 | 20 |
| 15 | SD Eibar | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 11 | -4 | 20 |
| 16 | Real Valladolid | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -9 | 20 |
| 17 | Osasuna | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -10 | 19 |
| 18 | Deportivo Alaves | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -11 | 18 |
| 19 | Elche | 18 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -9 | 17 |
| 20 | Huesca | 20 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -15 | 13 |