Villarreal and The Palms They meet this Monday at La Cerámica, in the last match of matchday eight of LaLiga, a match in which the locals will not be able to count on their top scorer, the international Ayoze Perezto fight for a victory that keeps them in the European zone against a rival who is bottom and who still does not know what it means to win.
The Castellón team, which has just won in the field of Spanish and to recover European positions, it faces the insular team the challenge of transferring the good results it is achieving at home to its stadium.
According to the statistics, a goal match, since two of the teams that receive the most in the championship face each other with fourteen and thirteen respectively, but on the other hand Villarreal is one of those that scores the most.
Within this scoring aspect, the work of Ayoze Perezwho has scored six goals in four consecutive days, although the Tenerife striker will be out for this match due to a small muscle discomfort, due to which his coach Marcelino announced that they prefer to be cautious to prevent it from going further.
One more day, Villarreal continues beset by casualties, since in addition to the aforementioned Ayoze, the injured Gerard Moreno, Alfonso Pedraza, Willy Kambwala and Juan Foyth will also not be available.
On the other hand, you can count on Raúl Albiol, that he could not finish the previous match due to a severe blow to the head for which he needed ten stitches; with fellow defender Logan Costa, who came out of that duel with discomfort due to a blow, and with international forward Yéremy Pino, already recovered from his muscle problems.
Marcelino has announced that there will be variations in your training starter, although not as many as he would have liked, being conditioned by his numerous losses. Therefore, he could recover in his lineup those players he rested last Thursday, such as Eric Bailly, Dani Parejo or Nicolás Pépé.
Cillessen, last minute drop at UD Las Palmas
In front will be the UD Las Palmas, who hasn’t won a game since February 10 this year, when they beat Valencia on matchday 24 of the previous season, a fact that seems to bother their current coach, Luis Carrión, who insists that for him there are only seven games they have not won, those played in this campaign with the team at his command.
The truth is that with the Catalan coach there are already half of those who the team chained last year in the final stretch of the season, although they achieved the pandrmanence thanks to his collection of points in the first round, like those he added precisely in Villarreal almost a year ago, in October 2023, with a 1-2 victory in what was his first away victory.
The lack of defensive consistency continues to take its toll on the Gran Canaria team, which has conceded goals in all its games. Without Marvin Park, McKenna and Mika Marble, three of the starting defenders, now injured, Carrión could force with the alignment of the other usual defender, Alex Suarez, although limping from a sprained left ankle, he was already on the bench against the green and white team, although he did not use it.
In addition, the yellow team has suffered the loss of its starting goalkeeper at the last minute. Jasper Cillessen, with a sprain in his left knee, so the young Croatian Dinko Horkas will have his opportunity.
Carrión has announced that he will rotations to distribute the physical loads, but also due to the need to look for new formulas to activate a team that does not finish starting.
Probable lineups
Villarreal: Diego Conde; Femenía, Bailly, Costa, Cardona; Parejo, Comesaña, Akomach, Alex Baena; Pépé and Barry.
The Palms: Horkas; Viti, Álex Suárez, Álex Muñoz, Benito; Javi Muñoz, Essugo, Campaign; Fábio Silva, McBurnie and Moleiro.
Referee: Melero López (Andalusian committee). VAR: Ortiz Arias (Madrid committee)
Stadium: The Ceramics.
Schedule: 9:00 p.m.