Elche vs Valencia Prediction

Recent form for both sides

Elche's last 20 matches across competitions show six wins, seven draws and seven defeats, with 28 scored and 33 conceded. That's a fairly even spread, though a chunk of those games were pre-season friendlies rather than league fixtures.

Elche: 20 completed matches; Valencia: 20 completed matches.

Elche

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

35% 7 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

28

Conceded

33

Difference

-5

Valencia

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

50% 10 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

31

Difference

-7

Valencia's equivalent sample reads seven wins, three draws and ten defeats, scoring 24 and shipping 31. The losses outweigh the wins by some distance, and their league form in particular has been patchy heading into this one.

Neither side looks to be arriving with any real momentum.

Comparative Team Statistics: Elche vs Valencia

Head-to-head

The last two meetings between these two have been close. Elche won 1-0 at home back in April, and before that Valencia drew 1-1 when hosting in January. Go further back and the fixture has swung both ways over the years, including some heavier wins for Valencia in older meetings.

Nothing in this history points strongly one way given how tight the recent games have been.

Where they sit in the table

After seven league games, Elche have five points from one win and two draws, with 11 scored and 17 conceded. Valencia are just behind on four points, having won once and drawn once, scoring only four goals while conceding 13.

Both clubs are clearly down among the lower positions early in the campaign, and Valencia's goal return stands out as particularly thin so far.

Team news

On the Elche side, Fer Niño has been their main source of goals with five in seven appearances, and Tete Morente has chipped in with three assists over the same span. F. Redondo has picked up a yellow and a red card across five matches, which is worth keeping an eye on for discipline.

Elche:

Best scorers:

Fer Niño - 5

Best assist providers:

Tete Morente - 3

Penalty cards:

F. Redondo x 1 x 1

There's no equivalent player detail available for Valencia here, so we can't draw the same picture for their squad.

How this one might play out

Put the numbers together and this doesn't look like a fixture built for goals. Valencia have struggled badly for a return in front of the net this season, and Elche's own defensive record isn't exactly watertight either.

With both teams low in the table and short on confidence, this has the feel of a scrappy, tightly contested match rather than anything one-sided.