Match Report
13 points and 9 places separated them: Elche 11th with 59, Real Valladolid 2nd with 72. Recent form told a different story for Elche: only 22nd in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 11th. Per game in the league, Elche were scoring 1.02 and conceding 1.1, Real Valladolid 1.21 and 0.86, against a competition average of 1.12 goals per team per game.
Real Valladolid arrived off three straight defeats.
Across 19 recorded meetings, Elche have 3 wins to Real Valladolid's 6, with 10 draws, at 2.42 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 42% of the meetings went to the host. 68% of these meetings featured a goal for each side.
The venue was Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero in Elche, with room for 36,017 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.