Rayo Vallecano vs Elche Prediction & Preview - LaLiga
Matchday 10 of LaLiga puts Rayo Vallecano and Elche together at the Estadio de Vallecas in Madrid on Saturday 24 October 2026, kick-off 13:00 BST. Rayo arrive five days after a 1-1 draw away to Getafe, Elche seven days after a 0-0 at Villarreal, and the two sides have met once before in our records, in April. Our full preview and the prediction are below, and you can make your own call on the Rayo Vallecano vs Elche match page.
- Fixture: Rayo Vallecano v Elche
- Competition: LaLiga, matchday 10
- Date: Saturday 24 October 2026
- Kick-off: 13:00 BST
- Venue: Estadio de Vallecas, Madrid
Rayo Vallecano are a different team at home
Beñat San José's Rayo Vallecano have won 2 of their last 2 home games and 0 of their last 4 away. That is the whole story of their start, and it is why a home fixture reads better for them than the 8 points from their last 6 suggests.
Nothing they play in stays quiet. Both sides have scored in all 6 of those matches, there were 3 or more goals in the game in 4 of them, and Rayo have not kept a clean sheet once. They have also failed to score in none of the 6, which is the flip side: 10 goals scored, 14 conceded, including a 2-5 at FC Barcelona and a 1-4 at Real Madrid. The home wins were tighter - 2-1 against Espanyol, 3-2 against Real Racing Club.
Elche have tightened up and stopped scoring
Martín Anselmi's Elche have drawn 3 of their last 6 and won 1, a 3-1 at Espanyol. Six points, 8 goals scored and 8 conceded. They are in the relegation places, according to TeleElx.
The recent shape is clear enough. Two clean sheets in those 6 games, two blanks of their own, back-to-back goalless draws against Villarreal and Celta Vigo. When Elche have been beaten they have gone down scoring - 2-3 at home to Real Madrid, 2-3 at home to Real Sociedad - so the goalless run is the change, not the norm. One oddity: they have won 0 of 3 at home and 1 of 3 away.
Rayo Vallecano vs Elche head-to-head and team news
The sides met on 3 April 2026, 204 days before this game, and Rayo Vallecano won 1-0 at home. A tight game, decided by one goal, which is closer to Elche's current rhythm than to the goal counts Rayo have been producing.
Rayo are without Luiz Felipe for the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury and Andrei Ratiu is also ruled out, while Jorge de Frutos is a doubt after asking to come off in the 65th minute at Getafe with physical discomfort, the extent of which is not yet known, per Comuniate; Pathe Ciss is suspended and Augusto Batalla injured, according to The Stats Zone. Elche's only confirmed absentee is Marc Aguado, who hurt his ankle against Villarreal, and Anselmi has said his team's biggest asset is its competitiveness (TeleElx).
Rayo Vallecano vs Elche prediction
We are calling Rayo Vallecano 2-1 Elche in LaLiga at the Estadio de Vallecas on Saturday 24 October 2026. Rayo have won both home games in their last 6 and have scored in every one of them, which is a harder set of facts to argue with than Elche's two goalless draws.
Elche should get something, though. Both teams have scored in all 6 of Rayo's recent matches, and 1-0 in April was the sort of margin this pairing has already produced once.
Our prediction: Rayo Vallecano 2-1 Elche
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