UEFA Champions League Round 3 2026-10-20 · 19:00 UTC finished
Prediction
83% Liverpool (home) Model favorite
11% Draw
6% Villarreal (away)
Expected goals 2.83 — 0.77 Over 2.5 goals: 70% Both teams to score: 51%

Model: history/v2-w1460-r150. Probabilities are produced by our own model from public match data. They are not odds and not betting advice.

Why — recent form

"—" means the number is not available in our data; we never fill gaps with zeros. Recent form covers only matches with expected-goals data, which may be fewer than the team's actual recent fixtures.

Metric Liverpool Villarreal
Recent xG (attack, per-match avg) 1.242.45
Recent xGA (defence, per-match avg) 0.881.22
Sample size (matches with xG data) 55
Rest days since last match 33
Season pressing (PPDA, lower = more intense) 9.2 9.7
Matches in the last 7 days 33
Matches in the next 7 days 22
Travel to this match (km) 2821515

Injuries & suspensions

Latest pre-match snapshot from our data source; availability varies by league.

Liverpool

  • injured Conor Bradley return: Early January 2027
  • injured Dominik Szoboszlai return: Mid November 2026
  • injured Giovanni Leoni return: Late November 2026
  • injured Hugo Ekitiké return: Early January 2027
  • injured Jeremie Frimpong return: Mid November 2026
  • injured Víctor Muñoz return: doubtful

Villarreal

  • injured Carlos Romero return: doubtful
  • injured Nicolas Pépé return: doubtful

Head to head

All-time (per our source): Liverpool 3 · 0 0 draws · 1 Villarreal

DateHome ScoreAway
2022-05-03Villarreal 2 - 3Liverpool
2022-04-27Liverpool 2 - 0Villarreal
2016-05-05Liverpool 3 - 0Villarreal
2016-04-28Villarreal 1 - 0Liverpool
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