Villarreal vs Valencia
The Spanish duo, Villarreal vs Valencia will face each other in the quarter-finals of the Europa League 2018/2019 season. Villarreal will first act as the host. Villarreal and Valencia are the two remaining teams in Europe’s second caste competition, the Europa League this season. The two teams that are already very familiar with each other make this fight more fierce than usual.
In La Liga itself, Villarreal and Valencia’s performance is quite the opposite. If Valencia are currently competing to break into the Champions League zone, Villarreal are struggling to get out of the relegation zone. Valencia is currently ranked 6th with 46 points and Villarreal is ranked 18th with a collection of 30 points. The decline of Villarreal’s position to 18th rank is inseparable from the barrage of bad results they got in the last 3 games. In that period The Yellow Submarine was only able to secure just one point in La Liga. However, Villarreal showed a different performance in this competition, since then the group stage Villarreal had not been touched by defeat. Of the 10 matches, Villarreal recorded 5 wins and 5 draws.
On the other hand, Valencia is also experiencing a decline in performance. Had recorded 17 unbeaten matches including defeating Real Madrid two weeks ago Valencia had an anti-climax which suffered a 0-2 defeat at Rayo Vallecano’s headquarters at the weekend. This defeat also confirms that Valencia’s performance has not been fully stable. When viewed from the whole season, Valencia’s performance is better than Villarreal. But what is important is that Villarreal appear more fierce in European competition. While Valencia, they are also unbeaten in the knock-out phase of this competition but had a bad performance in the Champions League.
Prediction Today: Over 2.5
Odds: 1.90