Villarreal vs Valencia LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Villarreal are unbeaten in their last three Laliga home games against Valencia (W2 D1), keeping a clean sheet in each of them -their best run without conceding a single goal at home against them in the top-flight.
Villarreal are unbeaten in their last six home Laliga derbies against Valencian teams (W4 D2). Meanwhile, Valencia have won just once in their last six on the road in the competition (D3 L2), 4-2 against Levante in December 2019.
After two consecutive defeats at La Ceramica in Laliga in July, Villarreal are unbeaten in their last four home games in the competition (W3 D1).
Valencia won their recent away Laliga game against Real Sociedad (1-0) after being winless in their previous 12 games on the road in the competition (D3 L9). The last time they won two consecutive Laliga games away from home was in May 2019 (2).
Valencia have faced the most shots in Laliga this season (87) and the fourth-most in the Top 5 European Leagues after Dijon, Reims (both 106) and Marseille (97).
Villarreal have earned four points from losing positions this season in Laliga (GP3 -W1 D1 L1), more than any other team in the competition. Villarreal are the only Laliga team to have two different players with +3 goals scored.
Gerard Moreno and Paco Alcacer (3 each) have scored the six Laliga goals for Villarreal this season, all of them at La Ceramica. Valencia's top scorer Maxi Gomez in Laliga so far this season (3 goals) has been involved in three goals in his last four games against Villarreal in the competition (2 goals, 1 assist).
Villarreal boss Unai Emery has won just once in his last six Laliga managerial games against Valencia (D2 L3), 1-0 in his last home game against them for Sevilla in November 2015. Valencia's Javi Gracia is winless in five managerial Laliga games against Villarreal (D1 L4). Only against Real Madrid and Sevilla (6) he has managed games without a single win.
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