Espanyol vs Rayo Vallecano betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the La Liga match on August 31st, 2024

A La Liga match between Espanyol and Rayo Vallecano will hold on August 31st, 2024, Saturday at 17:15h (UTC), in Spain, check the Espanyol vs Rayo Vallecano betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Espanyol vs Rayo Vallecano will occur

The game will be played in the great RCDE Stadium stadium, in the city of Cornella de Llobregat, with a capacity for 40500 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

Including statistics, events and odds, you can follow the match live with access to all the information to help with your sports betting on Betarena.

Introduction to the Espanyol vs Rayo Vallecano betting tip 2024/2025

Espanyol come from a defeat in the last match. The game against Real Sociedad, valid for the La Liga, ended with a 0-1. The team coached by J. González Álvarez lined up in the last match with a 4-4-2 formation.

The odds for the defeat of the home team before the match were 2.10, so it was expected to be a fairly even match.

This was certainly not the best performance of the season for the defense. Omar El Hilali leads the departmental disaster: with his late interventions and bad passes he allowed many chances to the opposing team's attacks.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a defeat in the last round. In a dispute valid for La Liga, Rayo Vallecano, who used a 4-4-2 formation, faced the FC Barcelona team with a final score of 1-2.

Before the match all forecasts pointed to a defeat. The odds for their victory, 5.00 were the best proof of this.

Rayo Vallecano was in 11th place when they last went head-to-head in La Liga against Espanyol, who was in 19th place. Rayo Vallecano formed a 4-4-2 arrangement while Espanyol took to the pitch with a 4-2-3-1 formation.

The previous encounter between these teams saw them fighting hard to stay ahead.

It was on 21-05-2023 when these two teams last clashed on the field. That match, which ended with the 1-2 win for Espanyol, was valid for the 2022/2023 season of the La Liga.

Espanyol

Current leaderboard

Espanyol is currently ranked 19th place in the table, with 0 points achieved up until 4th round.

Espanyol analysis

Espanyol have a negative goal difference, having after 3 rounds conceded 2 goals to opponents and scored 0. An average to improve.

Espanyol is not a team that imposes its rhythms on the field, it usually has a rather counterattacking game: in fact, during this league we see that it has an average ball possession of 44.5%. In the next match against Rayo Vallecano a change of attitude on the field will be needed, Espanyol will have to try to maintain possession to create goal chances and win.

Alejo Véliz' life is not being easy in this beginning of his trajectory for his new club. Hired for this season, the player has not been performing well, a fact that was repeated in Espanyol last game. Against Real Sociedad, once again he failed to score goals, accumulating another bad performance.

Rayo Vallecano

Current leaderboard

Rayo Vallecano is actually in 8th place winning 4 points from their matches so far this season, in the 4th round.

Rayo Vallecano analysis

After round 3 of La Liga we count 3 goals scored by Rayo Vallecano and 3 conceded.

The average number of shots toward the net of Rayo Vallecano can give us useful indications about the team's offensive abilities, and its goal average. The team counted 3 shots into the opponent's goal for each match played.

For punters some entries may be relevant for this game, namely:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 4.42 per game.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals scored and let in at the start of the championship round by both teams can be a good betting parameter. Espanyol didn't score any goal in the last round of the competition and conceded in 2 opportunities, while Rayo Vallecano scored 3 times and conceded 3 goals as well.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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