La Liga
· Round 11 · Fri 30 Oct, 20:00
Pre-match prediction
63%
22%
15%
Villarreal 63%
Draw 22%
15% Espanyol
✓Based on the confirmed starting lineups, not just each club's overall record.
Expected goals
1.96 – 0.82
Over 2.5 goals
53%
Both teams to score
49%
Model confidence
normal
Most likely scorelines
2-0 12%
1-0 11%
1-1 11%
2-1 10%
3-0 8%
Compared to the betting market (reference only, not used as a model input)
Villarreal
63% vs 69%
Draw
22% vs 18%
Espanyol
15% vs 13%
Lineups
Reference only — not used by the prediction model. Positions (LB/CB/RB etc.) are a best-effort guess from the source's own left-to-right player order, not a confirmed tactical slot.
E
Espanyol
4-2-3-1
1
Fortuño GK
8.3
1500
6
Cabrera LB
16
Drkušić CB
6.7
1492
21
Hinojo CB
6.2
1499
23
Hilali RB
7.0
1486
8
Expósito LM
6.6
1410
15
Zaragoza CM
26
Bauzà CM
6.7
1499
28
Hernandez RM
6.6
1490
9
Fernández ST
6.3
1470
25
Gulácsi GK
6.8
1492
6
Navarro LB
6.7
1554
12
Veiga CB
7.1
1517
15
Mouriño CB
6.9
1565
23
Cardona RB
6.1
1606
10
Moleiro LM
6.9
1546
14
Comesaña CM
6.6
1668
16
Macia CM
6.0
1497
17
Buchanan RM
6.2
1526
7
Moreno ST
6.5
1530
9
Mikautadze ST
6.4
1521
V
Villarreal
4-4-2
Villarreal · Bench
Luíz Júnior, Logan Costa, A. Freeman, Rubén Gómez, N. Pépé, Carlos Romero, T. Oluwaseyi, Ayoze Pérez, N. El Jmili, C. Tidiane Thiam
Espanyol · Bench
Q. Hartman, Javi Puado, Pol Lozano, Pere Milla, M. Dmitrović, Unai Núñez, Marcos Fernández, Gabriel Moscardo, T. Dolan, Adama Timera, J. A. Lopez
Villarreal · last 5 A
Head-to-head
01 Nov 2026
Villarreal
0–1
Espanyol
30 Oct 2026
Villarreal
0–1
Espanyol
09 Feb 2026
Villarreal
4–1
Espanyol
08 Nov 2025
Espanyol
0–2
Villarreal
27 Apr 2025
Villarreal
1–0
Espanyol
26 Sep 2024
Espanyol
1–2
Villarreal
27 Apr 2023
Villarreal
4–2
Espanyol
09 Nov 2022
Espanyol
0–1
Villarreal
27 Feb 2022
Villarreal
5–1
Espanyol
21 Aug 2021
Espanyol
0–0
Villarreal
News
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