VS
Valencia vs Real Madrid combines a clear status gap with a history of sharp Valencia responses. Valencia won 1–0 at Mestalla on 21 May 2023, then won 2–1 at the Bernabéu on 5 April 2025; Real Madrid answered with a 4–0 home victory on 1 November 2025 and a 2–0 win in Valencia on 8 February 2026. The next meeting will test whether authority or disruption leads.
Past matches, Valencia vs Real Madrid
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Valencia
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12D
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2M
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8M
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17F
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6F
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13G
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5D
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21D
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10M
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22M
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16F
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19F
Real Madrid Substitutes
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D
12
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M
21
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F
30
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M
28
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G
13
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G
43
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D
2
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D
20
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D
22
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D
4
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M
19
Match events
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65'⚽A. Carreras Normal Goal (Asst: D. Huijsen)
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69'Álvaro Carreras Yellow Card
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72'T. Correia U. Nunez
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72'G. Rodriguez Pepelu
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76'T. Alexander-Arnold D. Jimenez
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76'B. Diaz G. Garcia
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81'J. Guerra F. Ugrinic
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81'L. Ramazani L. Rioja
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82'U. Sadiq L. Beltran
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82'F. Mastantuono A. Guler
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88'José Copete Yellow Card
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90' +2J. Cestero Sancho F. Valverde
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90'⚽K. Mbappe Normal Goal (Asst: B. Diaz)
Stats for this game
Matchup Valencia VS Real Madrid
Real Madrid’s status, Valencia’s resistance
Real Madrid carry the stronger institutional and competitive status, yet Valencia have repeatedly made this a demanding fixture. Valencia won 1–0 at Mestalla on 21 May 2023, and on 5 April 2025 they won 2–1 at the Bernabéu after a late decisive goal. Real Madrid’s response was emphatic: a 4–0 home win on 1 November 2025, followed by a 2–0 victory at Mestalla on 8 February 2026. The evidence supports Madrid’s higher baseline while preserving Valencia’s capacity to overturn expectations.
Two venues, two kinds of pressure
Mestalla asks Real Madrid to manage a charged home setting while Valencia seek the moments that can turn resistance into a result. In Madrid, Valencia face a larger burden of defensive concentration, but the 2025 away win shows that the hierarchy can still be disturbed. The clubs’ competition contexts can change, so the durable editorial point is the balance between Madrid’s authority and Valencia’s disruptive ceiling. A future meeting will ask whether Madrid create another controlled margin or Valencia produce another reversal in either ground.