Talk about a fun matchup folks, we got two teams here itching for a victory but bending over backward to find it. Now, diving into the goalie stats, for Rayo Vallecano, Dani Cárdenas and Augusto Batalla have been on their toes all season, saving a combined total of 6 shots. Then there's Dinko Horkaš for Las Palmas who's been quite the wall with a total of 18 saves and a slightly higher overall rating.
Las Palmas’s best performers include Fábio Silva, who's been netting goals like it's a day job, notching up 2 goals from his 3 shots on target, and Oliver McBurnie, who's apparently been munching on green smoothies for breakfast with his tally of 3 goals. Meanwhile, for Rayo Vallecano, we have Iván Balliu and Álvaro García holding the fort with decent ratings but a drought of goals, which is a tad confusing, but who am I to judge?
Looking back at past encounters, Las Palmas has outscored Rayo Vallecano in the two out of the last three games. Head to head figures make for a cushiony stat sheet for Las Palmas.
The spotty regular season record of Las Palmas (8-8-18) could raise concerns, but then again, Rayo Vallecano's record isn’t exactly sparkly either (11-11-12). It's like picking between lima beans and brussel sprouts, isn’t it?
Recent form tells us a similar story, Rayo Vallecano ain't exactly walking on sunshine with one win in their last five games, and let's just say Las Palmas ain't strangers to the losing column either.
Based off of...whatever that data leads us to, I'll go ahead and say:
Albert’s Prediction: Las Palmas by 1