Racing Santander vs Valencia — La Liga 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 9+ matches
Racing Santander41%
Valencia29%✓ Correct in 49 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Racing Santander creates 26% more chances
Season form · 9 home / 44 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under64
- Over36
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No58
- Yes42
One side may not score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Racing Santander ↓
Most likely 1–0 (14%) · grid covers 99% of scorelines
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Total goals
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Winning margin
Team goals
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Racing Santander at home — creates 0.67, concedes 0.78 · 9 matches
Valencia away — creates 1.09, concedes 1.68 · 44 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Racing Santander attack 0.67 + Valencia defence 1.68 → ÷2 → 1.18
Valencia attack 1.09 + Racing Santander defence 0.78 → ÷2 → 0.94
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 41%?"
Racing Santander at 41% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 41% does not mean "Racing Santander will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
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Racing Santander host Valencia on Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 17:00. The match is part of the La Liga 2026/2027 season.
La Liga: Racing Santander 2–2 Valencia
Racing Santander and Valencia drew 2-2 in La Liga on January 29, 2012.
Goals: Adrián (2'), Aduriz (66', 80'), Bernardo (88').
The match was played at Campos de Sport de El Sardinero (Santander).