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La Liga Matchday 7 · 2026-27

Matchday 23 · La Liga 2025-26 · February 9, 2026

Goals only: this source has no shots, so the replay comes from each side's goals over the season.

Villarreal 4–1 Espanyol: lucky or expected?

Villarreal beat Espanyol 4–1, and the goals lean Villarreal’s way: 6 wins in 10, 2 for Espanyol, 2 end level. Rated on this season’s goals, Villarreal were expected to score 2.1 here and Espanyol 0.9. An own goal helped Villarreal.

Full time

Goals
Villarreal 4
Espanyol 1

February 9, 2026

Luck index +25 Villarreal lucky · −25 Espanyol

Our source has this match’s goals but not its shots, so it is replayed from what each side’s goals over the season say: both teams rated on every goal scored and conceded, and the match played again 4,000 times from those ratings. How often does this result come out? How the goals-only replay works

Ten replays. Villarreal win 6, 2 end level, Espanyol win 2.

  1. 1 VIL 2 ESP 1
  2. 2 VIL 1 ESP 0
  3. 3 VIL 3 ESP 1
  4. 4 VIL 4 ESP 2
  5. 5 VIL 4 ESP 1
  6. 6 VIL 5 ESP 1
  7. 7 VIL 2 ESP 2
  8. 8 VIL 2 ESP 2
  9. 9 VIL 0 ESP 2
  10. 10 VIL 0 ESP 1

The goals

Villarreal’s chance of winning

Numbers mark the goals, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the minutes left, with goals for the rest of the match at the league’s rates. A draw counts half, as in the replays. Shaded above the middle while Villarreal was ahead in it, below while Espanyol was.
MinuteGoalScoreWin chance
1. 35' Georges Mikautadze (Villarreal) 1–0 +26% Villarreal
2. 41' José Salinas (Villarreal, own goal) 2–0 +12% Villarreal
3. 50' Nicolas Pepe (Villarreal) 3–0 +3% Villarreal
4. 55' Alberto Moleiro (Villarreal) 4–0 +0% Villarreal
5. 88' Leandro Cabrera (Espanyol) 4–1 +0% Espanyol

Win chance: the scoring side’s chance of winning the moment before the goal against the moment after it, from the score and the minutes left. A draw counts half.

About these numbers

Scores and goals from openfootball (public domain). It has no shots, so there is no expected goals for this match and no finishing luck: the replay, the in-game win probability and the luck index are our own models, built from the season’s goals alone (methodology and validation). The luck index is how far the result was from what the goals say. Villarreal win 75% of replays (a draw counted as half).

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