The Simple Weekend (La Liga Opening Day Stats)

Last weekend the opening day Premier League stats pointed towards laying home teams and there were just 3 home wins at prices of 4.17, 1.25 and 1.64. Swansea (3.10), West Brom (4.16), Liverpool (3.04) and Man United (1.86) all won away and a 2.16 point profit would have been achieved backig all those.

La Liga starts this weekend and in the table below we can see the same stats as for the Premier League last weekend and the odds for these are the average odds taken from football-data.co.uk.

SeasonHDAH P/LD P/LA P/LBTTS YesBTTS No
2008-095235.1-3.60.555
2009-107213.9-3.5-6.537
2010-11334-3.41-1.737
2011-12433-3.21-2.255
2012-13523-1-0.80.764
2013-14514-2.3-6.81.764
2014-156312.20.7-7.946
2015-16253-6.99.4-1.737
Total372122-5.5-2.4-17.13545

The home teams dominate in Spain and the away teams have really struggled so backing the away team would not have been a good strategy. Last seasons opening day had 7 of the 10 games with 1 goal or less but that is not normal. In terms of BTTS there isn’t much of a pattern.

However, Spain has two massive giants in Real Madrid and Barcelona and removing those two, as well as Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, who have probably been the most consistent of the rest in those years we get completely different results.

SeasonHDAH P/LD P/LA P/L
2008-09213-2.4-2.84.5
2009-10321-0.10.5-2.5
2010-11222-0.90.5-0.9
2011-12222-2.51.20.5
2012-13330.2-64.7
2013-14313-1.5-3.82.2
2014-154114.1-2.8-3.9
2015-16132-4.13.90.8
Total201217-7.3-9.25.4

As you can see above again it’s not the away teams that are worth backing and aside from 2009/10 there have been at least 2 away wins in the remaining 6 or 7 matches.

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