📊 Form Guide
Rayo Vallecano WLWDDL ⚖
Rayo Vallecano will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 2-1 Conference League loss in their previous game against Slovan Bratislava.
In that game, Rayo Vallecano had 51% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Rayo Vallecano was Pérez (24'). Slovan Bratislava got 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Guram Kashia (49') and Alasan Yirajang (52') scored for Slovan Bratislava.
In their prior six fixtures, Iñigo Pérez's Rayo Vallecano have scored a combined total of 10 times, an average number of goals per match of 1.67.
A look at their previous results shows us that Rayo Vallecano:
- haven't lost in the league to Valencia in their previous 3 matches.
- are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.
Valencia DLWLDW ⚖
Valencia will go into this game following on from a 1-0 La Liga win with the defeat of Levante in their most recent match.
In that match, Valencia had 60% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Valencia was Duro (79'). At the other end, Levante had 7 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.
A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Valencia has become fairly consistent recently. Looking at their last six meetings reveals that it has occurred 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 7 while Valencia have scored 7. Previous results aside, time will tell whether that trend might persist in this match or not.
Leading up to this clash, Valencia:
- have not been beaten by Rayo Vallecano when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
- are without a win away from home in their last 8 matches in the league. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.
↔️ Head to head
A glance at their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 10/09/2022 tells us that Rayo Vallecano have won 2 of these and Valencia 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.
A sum of 9 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them from Franjirrojos and 4 created by Los Che. That is an average goals per game value of 1.5.
The last league fixture between the two was La Liga match day 32 on 19/04/2025 and the score finished Rayo Vallecano 1-1 Valencia.
That day, Rayo Vallecano managed 57% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.
On the other side, Valencia had 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Tárrega (45' Own goal) and Umar Sadiq (75') scored.
The referee was Alejandro Quintero González.
📰 Team News: Rayo Vallecano
There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Rayo Vallecano manager Iñigo Pérez to contend with due to a largely intact group of players. Randy Nteka (muscular problems) won’t play.
It looks as if Franjirrojos will possibly go for a 4-2-3-1 formation, handing starts to Augusto Batalla, Andrei Ratiu, Florian Lejeune, Nobel Mendy, Pep Chavarria, Oscar Valentin, Unai Lopez, Jorge de Frutos, Gerard Gumbau, Alvaro Garcia and Sergio Camello.
📰 Team News: Valencia
We reckon that Los Che will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Julen Agirrezabala, Thierry Correia, Cesar Tarrega, Jose Copete, Jose Gaya, Javier Guerra, Pepelu, Diego Lopez, Andre Almeida, Arnaut Danjuma and Hugo Duro.
💡 Prediction
We’re thinking that Valencia could well find it tough to be putting a goal past this Rayo Vallecano side who we think will score at least once to gain the upper hand.
We’re therefore seeing a good tussle with a 1-0 winning score for Rayo Vallecano at the end of the 90.
Should be interesting.
Andre Moura, 01:04 01/12/2025