In the first three rounds, Espanyol did not score a goal, but they did so in the next three so far. They even surprisingly took the lead as a guest against Real Madrid on Saturday, but ultimately lost 1:4. However, before that, they recorded two consecutive home victories - 3:2 against Alaves and 2:1 against Rayo Vallecano. So the home fans will hope for another home success now.
Resounding first loss for VillarrealVillarreal had interesting matches from the beginning of the season. They went unbeaten and stayed that way in the first five rounds. However, on Sunday, they suffered a resounding defeat and fell 1:5 at home to Barcelona, despite having two goals canceled for Villarreal. It was a new high-scoring match for the "Yellow Submarine", and both teams have scored in all of their matches so far.
Prediction: Both teams to scoreEspanyol has woken up and even won their last two home matches, which were high-scoring. Villarreal now needs to recover after the heavy defeat, and it seems that they could also have a high-scoring match here or one in which both teams score.
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