Villarreal — Elche 0:0, 17 October: match result

match finished La Liga · Matchday 9 Saturday 17 October · 14:15 UTC

Villarreal 12th · 9 pts LWDLW

0 : 0 1st half 0:0

Elche 18th · 7 pts LWDDW

Estadio de la Ceramica · referee V. Garcia

Match predictionSafe

Elche to stay within two goals

92% · Elche games average 3.1 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Elche to stay within two goals”, and the match finished 0:0.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Villarreal 43% draw 24% Elche 33%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Villarreal win, and the match finished 0:0. Fans backed Villarreal win — they got it wrong.

fans 58 votes

Villarreal 47% draw 17% Elche 36%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

F. Redondo Solari for M. Aguado 28'

G. Villar 38'

M. Neto for T. Lemar 65'

Tete Morente for L. Cepeda 65'

F. Nino for A. Osorio 65'

G. Mikautadze for S. Comesana 66'

N. Saliba for C. Macia 66'

P. Gueye for T. Oluwaseyi 66'

Tete Morente 71'

R. Revivo 75'

G. Moreno for I. Akhomach 76'

A. Freeman 81'

R. Sanchez for Buba Sangare 83'

N. El Jmili for A. Perez 84'

J. Foyth 90+1'

V. Chust 90+1'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Villarreal 4-4-2 5-4-1 Elche

Péter Gulácsi  
Alexander Freeman  8 Juan Foyth  2 Logan Costa  23 Sergi Cardona  
Ilias Akhomach  14 Santi Comesaña  16 Carlos Maciá  21 Tani Oluwaseyi  
Ayoze Pérez  10 Alberto Moleiro  

Abiel Osorio  
Lucas Cepeda  12 Gonzalo Villar  8 Marc Aguado  18 Thomas Lemar  
Buba Sangaré  47 Javi Morcillo  23 Víctor Chust  3 Roy Revivo  11 Germán Valera  
Matías Dituro  

Villarreal bench

5Alassane Diatta
20Carlos Romero
9Georges Mikautadze
7Gerard Moreno
28Joselillo Gaitán
1Luiz Júnior
24Nathan-Dylan Saliba
27Nizar El Jmili
18Pape Gueye
6Pau Navarro
12Renato Veiga
15Santiago Mouriño

Elche bench

13Alejandro Iturbe
29Ali Houary
9Ezequiel Ponce
10Facundo Buonanotte
5Federico Redondo
14Fernando Niño
17Josan
15Kevin Lomónaco
16Martim Neto
6Pedro Bigas
22Rubén Sánchez
20Tete Morente

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

58%Possession42%

20Shots7

7Shots on target1

5Shots off target5

8Blocked shots1

16Shots inside box1

4Shots outside box6

119Attacks66

71Dangerous attacks23

10Corners5

6Offsides0

12Fouls7

2Yellow cards4

1Saves6

528Passes390

458Accurate passes310

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

0Penalties0

Villarreal

ElcheThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Villarreal and Elche met on matchday 9 of the La Liga on 17 October at Estadio de la Ceramica. Final score — 0:0.

Villarreal sit 12th on 9 points after 11 matches (3 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses). Elche sit 18th on 7 points after 11 matches (2 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses), 3 matches without conceding.

Of the last 2 meetings Villarreal won 2, Elche won 0. Aggregate score — 5:2.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Villarreal last five Elche

LWDLW form LWDDW

11 Matches 11

3 — 3 — 5 Wins — draws — defeats 2 — 4 — 5

15 — 15 Scored — conceded 14 — 18

1.09 Points per game 0.91

1.36 Goals scored per game 1.27

1 Clean sheets 3

4 Failed to score 4

winless in 1 Current streak winless in 1

Villarreal at home: 5 matches, 1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses, goals 6—7, 0.8 points per match.

Elche away: 6 matches, 2 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss, goals 10—6, 1.5 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

2 Villarreal wins 0 draws 0 Elche wins goals 5:2 Villarreal — Elche

08/03/2026	Villarreal — Elche	2:1	La Liga
03/01/2026	Elche — Villarreal	1:3	La Liga

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
10	Alavés	12	3	4	5	15—17	13
11	Villarreal	11	3	3	5	15—15	12
12	Celta de Vigo	11	2	6	3	10—10	12
…
16	Osasuna	12	3	3	6	12—23	12
17	Elche	11	2	4	5	14—18	10
18	Levante	11	2	4	5	16—21	10

Full La Liga table

Villarreal — Elche, 17 October 2026, 14:15 UTC : score 0:0