In the La Liga game on 20 September 2026, Deportivo La Coruña beat Real Betis 1:1. Match numbers: shots on target 7:4, corners 10:5.
Match report
Deportivo La Coruña and Real Betis shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw at the Riás Bajas on Saturday afternoon. The La Liga seventh-round fixture ended level after Diego Villares struck late to rescue the hosts. We had backed Betis to win with 69 per cent confidence. The match refused to follow that course.
Bright Ede picked up a yellow card in the third minute and the tempo stayed tight through the opening exchanges. Marc Bartra came off for Betis at the twelve-minute mark, a change that caught the eye. Cucho Hernández broke the deadlock before half-time, slotting home in the forty-third minute. By then Deportivo had already tested their goalkeeper with several attempts.
The second half opened with a flurry of changes on both sides. Nelson Deossa and Antony Matheus dos Santos joined the fray for Betis around the sixty-minute period. Diego Valentín Gómez went into the referee's book for the visitors at sixty-five, the same moment Riki Rodríguez and Jonathan Asp Jensen replaced each other for Deportivo. Things came to a head late.
Deportivo kept knocking on the door after the break, creating three big chances against the visitors' one. Their expected goals figure of 2.32 stood in contrast to Betis's 1.05. Yet the Portuguese visitors held firm with six saves from Álvaro Valles, while their own keeper faced just two efforts. Shots accuracy sat at thirty per cent for the hosts and thirty-six for the away side.
Victory eluded Betis once again, and the result leaves them third on sixteen points after seven games. Deportivo remain in seventh with ten points, a gap of six separating the sides. The hosts had lost to Sevilla in their most recent outing, but this draw halts a run of inconsistency. To be fair, they are starting to look more like a unit.
HT🟨3' Bright Ede — Yellow card⇄12' Marc Bartra — Substitution⇄34' Marc Casadó — Substitution⚽43' Cucho Hernández — Goal⇄61' Nelson Deossa — Substitution⇄62' Antony Matheus dos Santos — Substitution🟨65' Diego Valentín Gómez — Yellow card⇄65' Riki Rodríguez — Substitution⇄65' Jonathan Asp Jensen — Substitution⇄75' David Mella — Substitution⇄75' Bil Nsongo — Substitution⇄79' Marc Roca — Substitution⇄79' Pablo Fornals — Substitution⚽87' Diego Villares — Goal
