La Liga predictions this weekend: every fixture and our call
From Sevilla against Valencia on Friday to Villarreal against Betis on Monday, every game with kick-off time and our call. Real Madrid host Rayo, Barcelona travel to Levante. Predicted line-ups land on Friday.
La Liga returns from Friday 11 to Monday 14 September with ten games. Barcelona come off a 5-1 win over Feyenoord in the Champions League, Real Madrid off victory against Inter Milan.
Below is every fixture with the Italian kick-off time and our call.
Friday 11 September
Saturday 12 September
14:00 Racing Santander v Alavés. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
16:15 Osasuna v Espanyol. Our call: the home side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
18:30 Athletic Bilbao v Elche. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
21:00 Real Madrid v Rayo Vallecano. Our call: either side to win, no draw, confidence 6 out of 10.
Sunday 13 September
14:00 Celta Vigo v Malaga. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
16:15 Levante v Barcellona. Our call: either side to win, no draw, confidence 6 out of 10.
18:30 Getafe v Deportivo La Coruña. Our call: under 3.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
21:00 Real Sociedad v Atlético Madrid. Our call: over 1.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
Monday 14 September
21:00 Villarreal v Betis. Our call: the home side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
The three to watch
Real Madrid against Rayo Vallecano, Saturday at 21:00, is the first night back at the Bernabeu after the Champions League: our call is either side to win with no draw, confidence 6.
Levante against Barcelona at 16:15 and Real Sociedad against Atletico Madrid at 21:00 close the Spanish Sunday. On the latter we have over 1.5 goals, confidence 7.
La Liga does not pause there: three more games follow on Tuesday 15, Elche against Real Madrid among them.
Predicted line-ups
They do not exist yet, and anyone publishing them today is guessing: managers speak the day before the game. This page is updated on Friday with a predicted line-up for every fixture, and again when the confirmed team sheets land, about an hour before each kick-off.
How to read these calls
Every call carries a confidence from 1 to 10, our measure of how solid the picture is: not a promise, a weight. On Monday, with the round closed, we count all of them in the recap, the ones that missed included.
Every game with our calls is on the La Liga page. The record of our settled calls is in the results history, and the individual calls are in player predictions.
