- 1 Elche vs Real Madrid: twelve points to two, the biggest gap on the card
- 2 Elche: nine goals conceded in three games and a winless run that keeps growing
- 3 Real Madrid: four goals three times and Mbappe already in gear
- 4 La Liga prediction Elche vs Real Madrid
- 5 First, a word on our free tips
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- 8 Your role
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- 10 Legal age
- 11 About the visuals…
Elche vs Real Madrid: twelve points to two, the biggest gap on the card 
Real Madrid have 12 points after five league games, while Elche have only two. No other match in this sixth round pits two sides so far apart in the Spanish table.
The game is set for Tuesday 15 September at 9:30 pm CEST at the Martinez Valero. The 31,388-seat ground in Alicante will host the league runners-up.
Elche sit 19th with two draws and three defeats from five matches. The Ilicitanos still have not won a game since the season kicked off.
Real Madrid have dropped points only once in the league, away to Real Betis in a 1-0 defeat. The rest of their record is four wins, three of them by four goals.
Jose Mourinho took charge of the Madrid club on 13 June 2026 after Alvaro Arbeloa’s exit. The Portuguese coach goes into Tuesday night with a 10-point cushion over his opponents.
Martin Anselmi also arrived this summer, appointed on 13 June 2026 to replace Eder Sarabia. Both benches changed on the same day, though not with the same resources.
The fixture list has not been kind to last season’s promoted side: hosting the second-placed team on a Tuesday night, in the middle of three matches in eight days, is a nasty spot. Elche still need points from somewhere.
That gap in the table is the main story of the night. It shapes the tactical picture as much as it shapes the betting angle.
Elche: nine goals conceded in three games and a winless run that keeps growing 
Elche had already conceded nine goals after just three league games, while scoring three. That minus-six difference was the worst in La Liga at the time.
On 23 August, the Martinez Valero saw Barcelona stroll to a 5-0 win. It remains the biggest away victory in the Spanish league this season.
Five days later, the Alicante side were beaten again, losing 3-2 at the Sardinero to Racing Santander. Yassir Zabiri hit a hat-trick to hand the Cantabrian promoted club its first La Liga win since 2012.
Those back-to-back defeats have put Elche on the longest winless run in the division. A month later, they still have not added a single victory.
The problem is clearly at the back: conceding five against the champions and three away to a promoted side points to a fragility that is not just bad luck. Neither loss was down to one isolated moment.
Martin Anselmi has inherited a squad that scores little and concedes plenty, with no real prep time to fix either end of the pitch. The Argentine took over in June 2026, just weeks before the new season.
Captain Pedro Bigas and his centre-backs will face one of the most dangerous attacks in Europe on Tuesday. The margin for error will be close to zero from the first whistle.
With two points from five games, Elche are already in survival mode in September. That usually means a deep block, which is exactly the sort of setup Real Madrid like.
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Real Madrid: four goals three times and Mbappe already in gear 
Real Madrid have scored four goals against Real Sociedad, Malaga and Rayo Vallecano. Three four-goal games in five league matches is a scoring output nobody else in La Liga can match.
Kylian Mbappe netted a hat-trick on 26 August against Real Sociedad in a 4-1 win watched by 72,226 fans. It is the biggest crowd in the Spanish league so far this season.
The Frenchman was among La Liga’s top scorers at the end of August with three goals. His sharp start fits the pace set by the Madrid collective.
Their latest away trip brought four more goals last Saturday at Rayo Vallecano. The response came straight after their only stumble of the season.
That stumble was the 1-0 loss at Real Betis, one of the few sides to shut the game down properly. Real Madrid simply could not find a way through in 90 minutes.
In the Champions League, the Madrid side beat Inter Milan 2-1 at the Bernabeu on 8 September. Two Milan defensive errors turned the match before the hour mark.
Federico Valverde wears the armband for a team that has won five of its six official matches in all competitions. The only setback came against a side happy to defend with 11 men for the full match.
Tuesday’s tactical question is straightforward: can Elche last as long as Betis did? The nine goals Elche have already shipped in three league games suggest the answer is probably no.
Probable Elche team: Not available at the time of publication.
Probable Real Madrid team: Not available at the time of publication.
La Liga prediction Elche vs Real Madrid
Our prediction: Real Madrid to win by at least two goals
Real Madrid have scored four goals in three of their five league outings. Against a defence that has already conceded five to Barca and three to Racing Santander, the gap is there for all to see.
Elche have not won once this season and are stuck on the longest winless run in La Liga. Ten points separate the two clubs in the table, and nothing over the past month suggests that gap has narrowed.
The Madrid side’s only defeat came against a Betis team capable of seeing out a 1-0 win. Elche have not shown that kind of resilience, neither against Barcelona nor away to a promoted side.
So the bet is on the margin, not just the result: Real Madrid to beat Elche by two goals or more.
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