📊 Form Guide

Valencia

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Valencia will be hoping for a better result after a 1-0 La Liga loss in their previous game against Villarreal.

In that game, Valencia managed 47% possession and 14 shots on goal with 7 on target. Villarreal had 13 shots at goal with 7 on target. Jorge Cuenca (54') scored for Villarreal.

In their last 6 games, Rubén Baraja's Valencia have hit the target 5 times, with that being an average number of goals per match of 0.83.

Analysis of their past results shows that Valencia:

• have not registered a win against Mallorca in their last 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 10 league matches at home. It's been impressive.

Mallorca

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Mallorca go into this clash following a 1-0 La Liga win vs Granada in their previous match.

In that match, Mallorca managed 51% possession and 18 shots on goal with 8 on target. The scorer for Mallorca was Antonio Raíllo (85'). Granada got 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

For 5 of the prior six games featuring Mallorca, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game in that spell comes to a mere 1.67, with the average goals for Los Bermellones being 0.83.

Leading up to this clash, Mallorca:

• haven't been beaten by Valencia when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 11 matches in the league. A poor run.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings dating back to 19/01/2020 shows us that Valencia have won 1 of them & Mallorca 3, with the tally of draws being 2.

A sum of 16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 from Los Che and 10 coming from Los Bermellones. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league contest featuring these sides was La Liga match day 9 on 07/10/2023 and the score finished Mallorca 1-1 Valencia.

On that occasion, Mallorca managed 49% possession and 9 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was Dani Rodríguez (5').

On the other side, Valencia had 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Diego López (45') scored.

The match was refereed by Francisco José Hernández Maeso.

📰 Team News: Valencia

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the lone fitness concern for the Valencia manager Rubén Baraja to be concerned about due to a largely intact set of players. Mouctar Diakhaby (Knee injury) will miss out.

It looks as if Los Che should go for a 4-4-2 formation this time, handing starts to Giorgi Mamardashvili, Thierry Correia, Cristhian Mosquera, Cenk Ozkacar, Dimitri Foulquier, Diego Lopez, Javier Guerra, Pepelu, Fran Perez, Roman Yaremchuk and Hugo Duro.

ℹ️ Team News: Mallorca

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to select from, the Mallorca manager Javier Aguirre does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this clash.

There’s a good chance that Los Bermellones appear most likely to utilise a 5-3-2 formation, choosing Dominik Greif, Matija Nastasic, Antonio Raillo, Jose Copete, Giovanni Gonzalez, Toni Lato, Antonio Sanchez, Samu, Daniel Rodriguez, Cyle Larin and Vedat Muriqi.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Mallorca will need to push hard to breach the defence of this Valencia lineup who we think will likely end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a narrow 1-0 winning margin for Valencia at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 17:02 30/03/2024