Real Madrid vs Valencia Preview

Real Madrid vs Valencia

Competition – Spanish Primera

Stadium – Estadio Santiago Bernabéu

Date: 1st December 2018

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Real Madrid recovered from their shock 3-0 loss at Eibar last weekend to beat AS Roma 2-0 away in the Champions League in midweek and they will be looking to win their 6th game in 7 attempts when they take to the field in this game.

Los Blancos are currently 6 points off the top of the league table and 3 points outside the top four, so they need a win here to avoid being pulled further away from the title race.

Madrid have won 5 of their last six games, scoring 15 times and conceding 5, so they won’t be short of confidence ahead of the visit of Los Che in this game.

Valencia suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of Juventus in midweek.

That result effectively ended their run in the Champions League at the group stage and they will be looking to focus more on moving up the league table now.

Valencia come into this game in 11th position having won just 3 league games all season.

Los Che have just started picking up wins as they previously focused more on not losing games which resulted in 8 league draws so far.

Valencia have won their last 2 league games and haven’t lost any of their last 5 away games in the league, so they should be confident that they can cause Real Madrid problems at the Bernabeu.

Bookmakers have priced Real Madrid up as strong odds-on favourites to get all three points here while goal markets suggest this game will see 3 or more goals as over 2.5 goals is trading odds-on with bookmakers.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Real Madrid

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Celta Vigo 2-4 Real Madrid 11 Nov, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Viktoria Plzen 0-5 Real Madrid 7 Nov, 2018 Champions League
W Real Madrid 2-0 Real Valladolid 3 Nov, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Melilla 0-4 Real Madrid 31 Oct, 2018 Spanish Copa del Rey
L Barcelona 5-1 Real Madrid 28 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División

Valencia

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
W Getafe 0-1 Valencia 10 Nov, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W Valencia 3-1 Young Boys 7 Nov, 2018 Champions League
L Valencia 0-1 Girona 3 Nov, 2018 Spanish Primera División
W CD Ebro 1-2 Valencia 30 Oct, 2018 Spanish Copa del Rey
D Athletic Bilbao 0-0 Valencia 27 Oct, 2018 Spanish Primera División

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Valencia 1-4 Real Madrid 27 Jan, 2018 Spanish Primera División
Real Madrid 2-2 Valencia 27 Aug, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Real Madrid 2-1 Valencia 29 Apr, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Valencia 2-1 Real Madrid 22 Feb, 2017 Spanish Primera División
Real Madrid 3-2 Valencia 8 May, 2016 Spanish Primera División

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

December 22, 2024
Real Betis 21:00 Rayo Vallecano
January 3, 2025
Valencia 21:00 Real Madrid
January 10, 2025
Rayo Vallecano 21:00 Celta Vigo
January 11, 2025
Alaves 14:00 Girona
Real Valladolid 16:15 Real Betis
Espanyol 18:30 Leganes
Sevilla 21:00 Valencia
January 12, 2025
Las Palmas 14:00 Getafe
Atlético de Madrid 16:15 Osasuna
January 13, 2025
Real Sociedad 21:00 Villarreal
January 17, 2025
Espanyol 21:00 Real Valladolid
January 18, 2025
Osasuna 14:00 Rayo Vallecano
Leganes 16:15 Atlético de Madrid
Celta Vigo 18:30 Athletic Bilbao
Getafe 21:00 Barcelona
January 19, 2025
Real Betis 14:00 Alaves
Real Madrid 16:15 Las Palmas
Valencia 18:30 Real Sociedad
Girona 21:00 Sevilla
January 20, 2025
Villarreal 21:00 Mallorca

Spanish Primera Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Atlético de Madrid 18 12 5 1 33 12 +21 41
2 Real Madrid 18 12 4 2 41 18 +23 40
3 Barcelona 19 12 2 5 51 22 +29 38
4 Athletic Bilbao 19 10 6 3 29 17 +12 36
5 Villarreal 18 8 6 4 34 30 +4 30
6 Mallorca 19 9 3 7 19 21 -2 30
7 Real Sociedad 18 7 4 7 16 13 +3 25
8 Girona 18 7 4 7 26 25 +1 25
9 Osasuna 18 6 7 5 23 27 -4 25
10 Celta Vigo 18 7 3 8 27 28 -1 24
11 Real Betis 17 6 6 5 20 21 -1 24
12 Las Palmas 18 6 4 8 23 27 -4 22
13 Sevilla 18 6 4 8 20 27 -7 22
14 Rayo Vallecano 17 5 6 6 19 20 -1 21
15 Leganes 18 4 6 8 17 28 -11 18
16 Alaves 18 4 5 9 21 30 -9 17
17 Getafe 18 3 7 8 11 15 -4 16
18 Espanyol 18 4 3 11 16 30 -14 15
19 Valencia 17 2 6 9 16 26 -10 12
20 Real Valladolid 18 3 3 12 12 37 -25 12

Spanish Primera Results

December 22, 2024
Las Palmas 1 - 0 Espanyol
Leganes 2 - 5 Villarreal
Real Madrid 4 - 2 Sevilla
Valencia 2 - 2 Alaves
December 21, 2024
Barcelona 1 - 2 Atlético de Madrid
Osasuna 1 - 2 Athletic Bilbao
Celta Vigo 2 - 0 Real Sociedad
Getafe 0 - 1 Mallorca
December 20, 2024
Girona 3 - 0 Real Valladolid
December 18, 2024
Villarreal 1 - 1 Rayo Vallecano
Espanyol 1 - 1 Valencia
December 15, 2024
Barcelona 0 - 1 Leganes
Real Sociedad 0 - 0 Las Palmas
Villarreal 1 - 2 Real Betis
Alaves 1 - 1 Athletic Bilbao
Atlético de Madrid 1 - 0 Getafe
December 14, 2024
Rayo Vallecano 3 - 3 Real Madrid
Sevilla 1 - 0 Celta Vigo
Mallorca 2 - 1 Girona
Espanyol 0 - 0 Osasuna

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