Mallorca lost 2-0 on the road the last match-day, against Bilbao. In the meantime, Villarreal were held to a 2-2 draw by Atletico Madrid.

Going on, Villarreal would consider themselves unlucky to have missed out on wins in the past weeks, but they did come really close though.

Especially against reigning champions Atleti, they would have secured a victory, if not for an injury-time equalizer (that too an own goal).

The team will be careful against the newly promoted Mallorca, and will try to take advantage of their inexperience. Do also consider the fact that the Europa champions have a great h2h record over the years.

Likely, a win seems the expected outcome for Villarreal. But Mallorca have failed to find the back of the net just twice in the past 17 overall games, and just once in their former 15 home appearances.

As such, a clean sheet might be asking too much from Villarreal this Sunday.



译文(自动翻译仅供参考):

马洛卡在上个比赛日客场0 - 2输给了毕尔巴鄂。与此同时，比利亚雷亚尔被马德里竞技2-2逼平。

继续说下去，比利亚雷亚尔会认为他们错过了过去几周的胜利是不幸的，但他们确实非常接近了。

特别是对阵卫冕冠军马竞时，如果不是在伤停补时扳平比分(那也是一个乌龙球)，他们本可以获得一场胜利。

这支球队将会小心对付新升官的马洛卡，并且会利用他们缺乏经验的优势。也要考虑到欧罗巴冠军在过去几年里有一个伟大的h2h记录。

对比利亚雷亚尔来说，一场胜利似乎是预期的结果。但是马洛卡队在过去的17场比赛中只有2场没有进球，而在他们之前的15场主场比赛中只有1场。

因此，不失球对比利亚雷亚尔来说可能太难了。