So I thought today would be simple – just look up how Rayo Vallecano and Sevilla have played against each other over the years. Figured it’d take me ten minutes tops to find some clean stats. Boy was I wrong.
Where I started
First I hit Google like anyone else would. Typed “Rayo Vallecano vs Sevilla history” expecting tidy tables. Got flooded with betting sites instead. Like twenty pages of “GET THESE HOT TIPS” garbage with zero actual historical data. Kept scrolling past garbage sites until my finger got sore.
The deep dive mess
Finally found a Spanish forum thread from 2013 mentioning some match results. Started digging through their message history like an archaeologist. Found fans arguing about some controversial penalty back in 2005 – cool story but still no stats. Accidentally closed the tab and lost everything. Had to search again and found soccer blogs mixing up Vallecano with freaking Valladolid. Who designs these sites?
Weird discoveries along the way:
- Turns out Sevilla had a 9 year period where they didn’t play Vallecano at all
- Vallecano’s home wins happen way more in December for some reason
- Sevilla’s own fans kept complaining about Vallecano’s “impossible turf”
Started manually building my own chart in a sticky note app. Got halfway through before realizing I forgot to separate league games from cup matches. Had to restart the whole freaking thing.
Final compilation
After four hours and three cups of coffee, finally pieced together what matters:
- Total meetings since 1990: 37 matches
- Vallecano straight up wins: only 7 times
- Sevilla dominating: 19 wins
- Draws: 11 times (mostly ugly 0-0 games)
Biggest surprise? Last five games look totally different from the long-term pattern. Vallecano suddenly started winning twice at home with Sevilla looking like they forgot how to play football there.
Conclusion after this mess? Football stats sites desperately need better organization. If I have to scroll through betting ads ever again for simple history, I’m switching to watching tennis instead.