About Match
8 points and 15 places separate them: Villarreal 17th with 2, Deportivo Alavés 2nd with 10. Scoring rates set the scale: Villarreal 1.5 scored and 2 conceded per game, Deportivo Alavés 2.5 and 0.75, with the league averaging 1.5. Villarreal would climb to 5 points with a win and up to 11th (other results held equal).
Deportivo Alavés carry a 9-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Recent form is uneven: 5/15 points for Villarreal, 11/15 for Deportivo Alavés.
Across 19 recorded meetings, Villarreal have 7 wins to Deportivo Alavés's 9, with 3 draws, at 3 goals per meeting. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 68% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 74%.
The venue is Estadio de la Cerámica in Villarreal, with room for 23,500 spectators.