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Trival Valderas Alcorcón vs Leganés prediction

Copa del Rey · Round 1Awaiting result
Trival Valderas AlcorcónTrival Valderas Alcorcón
vs
LeganésLeganés

Our pick

Leganés team goals

Leganés over 1.5 goals

Judgement callLow

A fifth-tier opponent on Leganés's own pitch should give them two goals, despite their poor finishing.

Why this pick

A fifth-tier opponent on Leganés's own pitch should give them two goals, despite their poor finishing.

Trival are a fifth-tier side and the game is at Leganés's own ground. The market's 82% Leganés win and 82% over 1.5 match goals imply Leganés score most of the goals. My expected goals of 2.3 for Leganés give about 63% for 2+. Their 60% failed-to-score rate against second-tier sides keeps confidence low.

No bookmaker price to compare against, so this is a judgement call, graded on its own.

In short

Small lean on Leganés scoring at least twice: they're playing a fifth-tier side on their own pitch.

  1. 1Trival play in the fifth tier; Leganés are a struggling second-tier side.
  2. 2The tie is at Butarque, so Trival's home advantage is gone.
  3. 3The prices already make Leganés a heavy favourite, so no priced edge.

Go deeper

Us vs the bookmakersBiggest disagreement: Over 3.5 goals — we say 37%, bookmakers 41%
OursBookmakersGap
Trival Valderas Alcorcón win7%5%+2
Draw14%13%+1
Leganés win79%82%-3
Over 1.5 goals83%82%+1
Over 2.5 goals61%62%-1
Over 3.5 goals37%41%-4
Both teams score34%34%0
Penalty in the match25%––
Red card in the match17%––

Bookmaker figures are their odds with the margin removed. A gap of 4 points or more is highlighted. The data-feed column is the data provider's own forecast, shown for reference.

Expected goals

0.60 – 2.30

Expected corners

10.0

Expected cards

4.0

Late team news (5)Tie played at Leganés's Butarque because Trival's La Canaleja doesn't meet requirements.

Tie played at Leganés's Butarque because Trival's La Canaleja doesn't meet requirements.

2026-11reliability: highsportsmole.co.uk

Trival Valderas play in Tercera Federación group 7 (fifth tier), ninth with 14 pts from 9, three straight league draws.

2026-11reliability: highsportsmole.co.uk

Lalo Aguilar and Ignasi Miquel are being monitored for fitness; Atienza and Tejero are back; Carrión is considering lineup changes.

2026-11reliability: mediumsportsmole.co.uk

Morata has served his ban and is available; the club says it takes the Cup seriously; the starting goalkeeper is undecided.

2026-10reliability: mediumelgoldigital.com

Referee reported as Marta Huerta de Aza (article's date details conflict with other sources).

2026-10reliability: lowelgoldigital.com

What could go wrongLeganés failed to score in six of their last ten games; heavy rotation could leave them blunt again.

Leganés failed to score in six of their last ten games; heavy rotation could leave them blunt again.

What it couldn't verify

  • Confirmed Leganés squad list and extent of rotation
  • Confirmed referee (one source only)
  • Any Trival Valderas match stats
  • Exact kickoff (sources conflict)
The dataThis is the evidence the analyst was given for this match.

This is the evidence the analyst was given for this match.

Trival Valderas AlcorcónLeganés
Points per game–0.5
Goals for – against– – –0.6 – 2.1
Expected goals (xG) for – against– – –0.84 – 1.73
Clean sheets–20%
Both teams scored–30%
Over 2.5 goals–50%
Corners for – against– – –3.4 – 6.1
Yellows for – against– – –2.9 – 2.7
Days since last match44513

Last 10 matches: the home side at home, the away side away. Goals and xG are for–against per game; corners and yellow cards likewise.

Absences

Trival Valderas Alcorcón

None reported

Leganés

A. Diawara (injured: national_team)

I. Gharbi (injured: national_team)

Line-ups: predicted

Bookmaker odds

Trival Valderas Alcorcón

17.26

Draw

7.25

Leganés

1.13

Over 2.5 goals

1.51

Under 2.5 goals

2.41

Both score: yes

2.77

Both score: no

1.40

Consensus of several bookmakers. Their combined margin is 8.1%.

Last 10 games — Trival Valderas Alcorcón
09-03ABarakaldo CF0–3L
Last 10 games — Leganés
11-07HAlbacete Balompié1–3L
11-02AReal Valladolid3–4L
10-24HMallorca1–1D
10-16HCórdoba0–1L
10-11AAlmería0–3L
10-03ACádiz0–4L
09-28HCD Castellón0–2L
09-20HGranada3–2W
09-13ACD Tenerife0–2L
09-04AUD Las Palmas0–0D
The full write-upThe analyst's complete reasoning · 2 min read

Leganés should beat fifth-tier Trival Valderas at Butarque, but their poor form leaves no priced edge, so the only call is a low-confidence lean on Leganés scoring twice or more.

Data (pack). Leganés: 1-2-7 in their last 10, scoring 0.8 and conceding 2.2 per game. They failed to score in 6 of 10, but they created more than that (xG 1.44 for). They concede in every phase of the game (22 goals against). They pick up yellows (3.9 per game) and reds (0.2 per game). Trival Valderas have almost no data: one indexed game, a 0-3 Copa loss at Barakaldo in 2015. There's no head-to-head, and the pack names no referee.

News (web). Trival play in Tercera Federación group 7, the fifth tier. They're ninth with 14 points and drew 2-2 with Leganés B at the weekend. The tie is at Leganés's Butarque because Trival's La Canaleja doesn't meet the requirements, so home advantage is effectively Leganés's. Luis Carrión replaced Albés in October and the club says it is "taking the Cup seriously". Morata is available again after his ban, and Carrión is weighing changes to the lineup. Lalo Aguilar and Ignasi Miquel are being monitored. One outlet names Marta Huerta de Aza as referee.

Market. Leganés are 81.9% to win in 90 minutes, over 2.5 goals is 61.5% and both sides scoring is 33.6%. My model has Trival scoring 0.6 and Leganés 2.3, a total of about 2.9 goals once I add the usual scoring uplift. That puts over 2.5 at about 61%, in line with the market, so there's no priced edge on the result or the goal lines. Leganés's poor finishing argues against the over. The gap in level and the venue argue for it. The two roughly cancel out.

Lean. From those expected goals, Leganés reaching 2+ goals is about 63%. The case rests on the price of 1.14 for over 1.5 match goals and the two-division gap, which together suggest Leganés will score most of the goals. The counter-signal is their 60% failed-to-score rate, so confidence is low.

Uncertainties. We have no Trival stats, and the size of Leganés's rotation is unknown. The kickoff date and time differ between sources. Extra time doesn't count for the pick, which settles on 90 minutes.