After a 5/1 winner on Friday, Paul Higham is looking for Arnaut Danjuma to make it two in a row and spark a double celebration for Villarreal as they celebrate the re-opening of their renovated stadium on New Year's Eve against local rivals Valencia.
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Villarreal celebrate stadium reopening against derby rivals
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Danjuma scored twice in last game against Valencia
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Villarreal celebrate the return to their renovated home at the Estadio de la Ceramica with a local derby battle against Valencia in La Liga on Saturday night.
The Yellow Submarine are just two points above their local rivals ahead of the 56th Derbi de la Comunitat but have dominated the home meetings of late with four wins and a draw in the last five.
And on New Year's Eve in their shiny new stadium the home fans will be looking for quite the party and three points to celebrate in more ways than one.
New boss Quique has had a mixed record since coming in to replace Unai Emery (W3 D1 L3), but Valencia have won just one in six on the road and Gennaro Gattuso isn't a happy bunny at the lack of investment forthcoming for new signings.
A lack of an away clean sheet for Valencia will give Villarreal plenty of hope of keeping up their run of scoring twice at home against their rivals - which they've managed in the last three meetings.
There's also been red cards flowing in Valencia's away games with a remarkable six being dished out in their last four road games - with even more remarkably only one of those going to Valencia.
It's 15/8 for a red card in this match and I wouldn't rule out the 22/1 on both teams having one given Gattuso will have his side fired up and Villarreal will have a feverish crowd pushing them on.
For us, though, we'll side with Valencia having the most cards as a leg of our Bet Builder, which we'll couple with Villarreal having the most corners - with both legs weighing in at 5/6.
The home side will be the aggressors and there's not too much between the two teams in overall team corner stats but Valencia's woeful away run means they'll struggle to keep pace with the fired-up hosts.
And for our player portion, our main man has to be Arnaut Danjuma, who has four goals in his last four home starts for Villarreal and scored twice the last time these two teams played each other.
He's got all the attributes needed to get at this leaky Valencia defence and pocket us a nice bit of profit to head into 2023 with.