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See live & upcoming matchesVillarreal scored three goals away to Liverpool FC on 20 October 2026 and still lost 3-4. That is the side arriving for Valencia vs Villarreal in LaLiga on Saturday, 24 October 2026, kicking off at 17:30 BST in Valencia: a team that will score, and a team that can be scored against. Our call is a narrow Villarreal win.
Valencia against Villarreal kicks off at 17:30 BST on Saturday, 24 October 2026, in LaLiga, with Valencia at home. The match comes 4 days after Villarreal's UEFA Champions League defeat at Liverpool and 7 days after both clubs drew 0-0 in their previous LaLiga outings.
Conceding four was the only time in Villarreal's last six matches they have let in two or more goals. So the defensive collapse looks like the outlier, not the pattern. The attack is the pattern: 12 goals in those six, two or more in four of them, and three or more goals in the game in four of six.
Their last two home nights read oddly next to each other. A 3-1 win over SSC Napoli in the Champions League 11 days before this match, then a 0-0 with Elche in LaLiga 7 days before it. When Villarreal have run into the better teams in Spain they have been quieter - beaten 0-1 away to Real Madrid 14 days before this fixture, with nothing on the board.
Ten points from those six, against Valencia's five.
Two draws is the most recent evidence, and neither was comfortable. A 0-0 at home to Athletic Club 7 days before this match, and a 2-2 away at Real Racing Club 13 days before, after which the run thins out badly: 2-3 at home to Real Sociedad, 1-0 away at Deportivo Alavés, 0-1 away to Sevilla, and 0-5 at home to FC Barcelona.
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