Villarreal v Las Palmas

Villarreal vs Las Palmas Preview

Villarreal bounced back from a previous heavy 5-1 thrashing at the hands of Barcelona last time out in the Spanish top flight when Villarreal claimed all three points by way of a 2-1 win away from home at Espanyol and the hosts now return to the more familiar surroundings of their Estadio de la Cerámica for this upcoming Monday night encounter against Las Palmas in confident mood, while Las Palmas' winless start to this new La Liga season continued with a 1-1 draw at home with Real Betis.

Villarreal currently occupy fifth place in the La Liga standings having slipped to just one defeat so far in this season's domestic top flight campaign which came in the aforementioned landslide loss to Barcelona but the hosts have also captured four wins within their opening seven games of the new term.

Victories against Sevilla 2-1, Celta Vigo 4-3, Mallorca 2-1 and Espanyol 2-1 respectively have helped lift Marcelino's side up into early European reckoning for next season and this upcoming visit of bottom placed Las Palmas represents a golden opportunity for Villarreal to further strengthen their place in the top positions of the La Liga table.

The bigger picture shows Villarreal have suffered just the single defeat in their previous 11 league matches whilst collecting six wins in the process as well.

Las Palmas as mentioned earlier find themselves bottom of the Spanish top flight table as a result of the visitors failing to win any of their opening seven league matches to date this term; three draws have been outweighed by slipping to four defeats and this sort of form does not appear to bode well for this upcoming visit to the Estadio de la Cerámica against a confident Villarreal outfit on Monday night.

The visitors have seemingly picked up where they left off at the end of last season's disappointing La Liga campaign as they have failed to win any of their opening seven games so far this season and along with having endured a winless run of 14 league matches at the end of last term, that now makes it 21 matches without a win in La Liga.

This woeful record therefore looks to place Las Palmas in a precarious position ahead of this upcoming encounter against Villarreal and having suffered 13 losses within these last 21 games, the visitors look to have their work cut out here on Monday night.

In addition, Las Palmas have failed to win any of their last 11 outings on the road, slipping to no fewer than eight defeats along the way.

Villarreal v Las Palmas Verdict

Las Palmas may have won the last two meetings but Villarreal look the more likely for the three points on Monday night.

Therefore, our main bet will be Villarreal win @ 1.48

Other side bets worth considering:

Villarreal win & Under 3.5 goals @ 2.60

Correct Score: Villarreal 2-0 @ 8.50