And also a match between a team worth a relegation battle in poor form, and a top-6 team who have gotten all their best attacking players back into the starting lineup!

Valencia are 13th, 5 points above relegation zone, but performance-wise it is one of the of the 10 teams who are almost hand in hand in this danger, only Elche has been clearly worth the drop but for Valencia all the matches are of huge importance at this point.

How has it gone recently?

Two massive home wins vs Elche and Celta,

but in the other games they have not deserved any points, and the better class teams Atletico and Real Madrid have completely nullified them on the pitch. Last time losing 3-0 away at Getafe - a team who had not scored a goal in their last 5 - was the rock bottom performance! There was a red card for Diakhaby which can partly been used as an excuse, but the bottom line is that he misses this game now due suspension. Otherwise the injury situation is rather good at Valencia, which is about the only good news they have.

Villarreal are still in the Europa League after well enough performances vs Salzburg, and played a decent match last weekend despite losing to Atletico 0-2 at home. The best individual player on the match on the pitch was Atletico keeper Oblak, Villarreal created 19 shots, half of them by Moreno and Chukwueze.

Villarreal last 7 La Liga games with xG-numbers look like this:

Wait.. what.. no wins?

Well, there should had been a few when looking more closely to the performance stats, and also there have 4 clubs against them who are in top form. The last win came just before Granada game, they won Celta by 0-4! The Europa league matches on 18.2. and 25.2 also were a big distraction.

Looking at the actual table Villarreal do not fully impress as they are 7th with 37 points, 21 points behind Atletico. In the performance data they however are in top-5, alongside with Atletico....

such is football, it is goals that count.

Both likely to have as close to same lineups than last week, Villarreal are the better team at every department, they are well rested, and as they were outplayed also in the first encounter I expect it be repeated on Friday night in the Mestalla.

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瓦伦西亚排名13，领先降级区5分，但实际表现确实非常差的，只有明显降级埃尔切相近。

最近怎么样?

对埃尔切和塞尔塔的两场主场大胜，

但在其他比赛中，他们根本不值得得分，而更优秀的球队马竞和皇家马德里在球场上完全否定了他们。上次客场0 - 3输给赫塔菲——这支球队在最近的5场比赛中都没有进一球——是最差的表现!迪亚哈比得到了一张红牌，这在一定程度上可以作为一个借口，但最重要的是他现在由于停赛而错过了这场比赛。除此之外，瓦伦西亚的伤病情况相当好，这是他们唯一的好消息。

比利亚雷亚尔在对萨尔茨堡的比赛中表现出色，尽管在主场0-2输给了马竞，但他在上周末踢了一场不错的比赛。本场比赛最好的个人球员是马竞门将奥布雷克，比利亚雷亚尔创造了19次射门，其中一半是莫雷诺和丘克韦兹的射门。

比利亚雷亚尔最近7场西甲比赛的预期进球数据是这样的:

等待. .什么. .没有赢?

好吧，如果仔细看看他们的表现数据，应该会有一些，而且还有4个俱乐部在最佳状态下对抗他们。最后一场胜利是在和格拉纳达的比赛之前，他们以0-4战胜了塞尔塔!欧罗巴联赛18.2分。25。2也是一个很大的干扰。

从实际的积分榜来看，比利亚雷亚尔并没有给人留下深刻的印象，他们以37分排在第7位，比马竞落后21分。然而，在表现数据上，他们是前五名，与马竞....

足球就是这样，进球才是重要的。

这两支球队的阵容都和上周差不多，比利亚雷亚尔在各个方面都是更好的球队，他们休息得很好，而且他们在首场比赛中也被击败了，我希望周五晚上在梅斯塔利亚再次上演。

预测比分1:3。