FootballEdgeSeason 2026/27Self-updating record
Full time · La Liga · Tue 15 Sep 2026, 18:00 UTC

Rayo Vallecano 21 Espanyol

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What the chances were worth

No expected-goals numbers captured for this match.

What the model expected

Its probabilities for this match, logged before kick-off and never changed. The result is highlighted.

Rayo Vallecano
50%
Draw
27%
Espanyol
23%

The model made Rayo Vallecano to win its most likely call before kick-off, and that is what happened. It had the result at 50% beforehand.

One match tells you nothing on its own — whether these percentages are any good is the whole point of the calibration page, where every one of them is scored.

The brain read

Espanyol carried the greater threat — shots 16–19, 2–5 on target, 9–12 from inside the box. Match xG wasn't available for this game, so this read is built on the shot picture only.

A second opinion written by rule from the numbers on this page — where the shot picture and the xG disagree, it says so rather than picking a winner. Backward-looking only; it claims nothing about any future result.

The match in numbers

Rayo Vallecano
Espanyol
54%
Ball Possession
46%
16
Total Shots
19
2
Shots on Goal
5
10
Shots off Goal
7
4
Blocked Shots
7
9
Shots inside box
12
7
Shots outside box
7
3
Corner Kicks
5
0
Offsides
2
450
Total passes
361
371
Passes accurate
286
10
Fouls
15
5
Yellow Cards
1
0
Red Cards
1
3
Goalkeeper Saves
0
12
Free Kicks
10

As returned by the data feed at full time. Bars show each side’s share of the stat.

Confirmed line-ups

Captured from the official team sheets in the last hour before kick-off. The pick test requires these to be in before any call counts.

Rayo Vallecano 4-3-3

  1. 2 A. Rațiu (D)
  2. 4 Pedro Díaz (M)
  3. 6 P. Ciss (M)
  4. 8 Unai López (M)
  5. 10 Sergio Camello (F)
  6. 14 G. Tsitaishvili (F)
  7. 15 Mujaid Sadick (D)
  8. 17 Adrià Pedrosa (D)
  9. 18 Álvaro García (F)
  10. 24 F. Lejeune (D)
  11. 25 E. Audero (G)

Bench: Rayane Belid, I. Balliu, G. Bouare, Dani Cárdenas, Pelayo Fernández, M. Kumbulla, Adrián Molina, Fran Pérez, M. Roman, Óscar Valentín, Alemão, Marco de las Sías

Espanyol 4-2-3-1

  1. 3 Q. Hartman (M)
  2. 4 Urko González (M)
  3. 5 C. Riedel (D)
  4. 6 L. Cabrera (D)
  5. 9 Roberto Fernández (F)
  6. 13 M. Dmitrović (G)
  7. 20 Gabriel Moscardo (M)
  8. 21 Roger Hinojo (D)
  9. 23 O. El Hilali (D)
  10. 26 Rafel Bauzà (M)
  11. 28 Javier Hernandez (M)

Bench: T. Dolan, V. Drkušić, Edu Expósito, Marcos Fernández, Ángel Fortuño, Pol Lozano, J. A. Lopez, Pere Milla, Unai Núñez, Llorenç Serred, Bryan Zaragoza, Álex Calatrava

The market’s read

Rayo Vallecano
41%
market implied · price 2.33 · opened 46%
Draw
28%
market implied · price 3.35 · opened 28%
Espanyol
31%
market implied · price 3.07 · opened 26%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Rayo Vallecano or draw1.3669.1%-4.8 pts
Double chance Espanyol or draw1.6059.1%+5.7 pts
Double chance either team1.3171.8%-0.9 pts
Draw no bet — Rayo Vallecano1.6457.2%-6.9 pts
Draw no bet — Espanyol2.1942.8%+6.9 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2873.1%+0.9 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.9349.8%+0.9 pts
Over 3.5 goals3.2029.3%+0.6 pts
Both teams to score1.6955.1%+2.1 pts
Rayo Vallecano over 1.5 team goals2.2042.8%-3.1 pts
Espanyol over 1.5 team goals2.6235.9%+5.3 pts
Rayo Vallecano clean sheet3.2529.0%-6.4 pts
Espanyol clean sheet3.7525.0%+3.3 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-1 6.04 · 1-0 7.93 · 2-1 8.72 · 0-1 9.43 · 0-0 10.06

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-09-15 16:30 UTC. These are the closing prices — the market’s last word before kick-off. The Move column is how each market’s implied chance has shifted since the first price we captured: green = the chance has risen (the price shortened, backing coming in), red = the chance has fallen (the price eased out — what punters call the price ‘drifting’).

Prices are observations, not offers. Each price is the average across the bookmakers the collector sees, and the implied chance is that price with the bookmaker’s margin stripped out. The market’s read is published so the model’s read can be judged against it — nothing here is advice, and nothing here is staked.

Head to head

DateHomeScoreAway
23 Apr 26Rayo Vallecano1-0Espanyol
07 Dec 25Espanyol1-0Rayo Vallecano