Overview
The 2024-2025 season is going extremely difficult for Valencia. In the last 5 matches, they have only won once against Girona. With Valladolid unexpectedly defeating Alaves in the early match of round 10, coach Ruben Baraja's team has dropped to 19th place in the rankings.
Valencia is the club with the worst attack in La Liga this season with only 5 goals after 9 rounds. The Mestalla team even failed to score in the last 3 matches against Osasuna, Sociedad and Leganes.
Meanwhile, Las Palmas are in even worse shape than Valencia. They have not won a game since the start of the season and have lost six of their nine games. Las Palmas are currently bottom of the table and are the favourites to be relegated. Despite scoring nine goals, they have conceded 17 so far.
The last time Las Palmas won an away game in La Liga was back in January, against Rayo Vallecano. There was clearly too much going against Las Palmas against Valencia.
Overall, this will be an important reverse final for both Valencia and Las Palmas. A win will help them relieve their psychology and gain more confidence in the relegation race.
Valencia have won their last three home games against Las Palmas, keeping a clean sheet in each. Meanwhile, the home side have won the last four meetings between the two sides.
Las Palmas are yet to win this season, but their attack is much more efficient than Valencia's.
Human resources situation
Valencia received good news when Jose Gaya, Hugo Duro and Jesus Vazquez could play in this match.
On the other side of the front line, Las Palmas is having a hard time due to the absence of Sandro Ramirez due to injury. The Spanish striker is the player who has scored the most goals for Las Palmas this season.
Expected lineup:
Valencia: Mamardashvili, Foulquier, Tarrega, Mosquera, Vazquez, Guilllamon, Pepelu, Canos, Guerra, Rioja, Duro.
Las Palmas: Horkas, Viti, Suarez, McKenna, A. Munoz, Essugo, J. Munoz, Januzaj, Silva, Moleiro, McBurnie.
The match between Valencia and Las Palmas takes place at 2:00 a.m. on October 22 (Vietnam time).