About Match
The table reads 3rd (Real Madrid, 9 pts) against 16th (Villarreal, 2 pts), 7 points apart. Per game in the league, Real Madrid score 2.5 and conceding 0.75, Villarreal 1.5 and 2, against a competition average of 1.49 goals per team per game. A win would lift Real Madrid to 12 points and up to 1st (other results unchanged).
Real Madrid have banked 12 of the last 15 points on offer; Villarreal, 5.
33 meetings are on record — 18 won by Real Madrid, 4 by Villarreal, 11 drawn, at 3.42 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 39% of the wins in this matchup. Goals tend to flow: 64% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 70%.
Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid stages the fixture, a ground that holds 84,744.




