Rayo are averaging 3 yellow cards per game in 2026/2027, with matches involving them seeing 5.5 cards on average. That puts them 4th of 20 for total cards per match in their primary competition. Below you'll find player booking-rate forecasts, the matchup risk read for the upcoming fixture against Barcelona, a profile of referee Francisco José Hernández Maeso, and a full match-by-match log.
Use the booking-rate table on this page to see each Rayo player's yellow cards per qualifying appearance (≥20 minutes), plus their hit-rate over the last six appearances and current bookmaker odds to be carded.
Matchup risk blends the defender's fouls per game (40%), the opposition attacker's fouls drawn per game (40%), and the defender's underlying card rate (20%). Scores above 0.7 are flagged high risk, 0.4–0.7 medium and below 0.4 low.
All numbers come from match-level Sportmonks data ingested into Statz. Player odds are taken from Bet365 player markets when priced. Pre-match lineups are predicted lineups until team news lands, then confirmed.
A player must have featured for at least 20 minutes in a fixture for that match to count toward their booking rate and form. Cameo appearances are excluded so the rates aren't diluted.
Yellow cards are inherently noisy — we surface signal (form, matchup, referee profile, market price), not certainties. Use the booking-rate table and matchup risk as inputs, not guarantees.
Yes. The referee profile module shows the assigned official's average yellows per match this season alongside their season fouls and red-card rate so you can adjust expectations for the upcoming fixture.
| Player | Position | Apps | Yellow cards | Per game | 1+ hit rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilias Akhomach | attacker | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Nobel Mendy | defender | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Álvaro García | attacker | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Unai López | midfielder | 9 | 4 | 0.44 | 44% |
| Pathé Ciss | midfielder | 10 | 4 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Randy Nteka | midfielder | 5 | 2 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Alfonso Espino | defender | 6 | 2 | 0.33 | 33% |
| Sergio Camello | attacker | 8 | 2 | 0.25 | 25% |
| Fran Pérez | attacker | 4 | 1 | 0.25 | 25% |
| Isi Palazón | attacker | 4 | 1 | 0.25 | 25% |
| Alexandre Zurawski | attacker | 9 | 2 | 0.22 | 22% |
| Augusto Batalla | goalkeeper | 9 | 2 | 0.22 | 22% |
| Florian Lejeune | defender | 9 | 2 | 0.22 | 22% |
| Pedro Díaz | midfielder | 6 | 1 | 0.17 | 17% |
| Óscar Valentín | midfielder | 9 | 1 | 0.11 | 11% |
| Jorge de Frutos | attacker | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Andrei Rațiu | defender | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Pep Chavarría | defender | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Gerard Gumbau | midfielder | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Iván Balliu | defender | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Jozhua Vertrouwd | defender | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Carlos Martín | attacker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Dani Cárdenas | goalkeeper | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Oscar Trejo | midfielder | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Abdul Mumin | defender | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Date | Opponent | Venue | Score | Team yellow cards | Opposition yellow cards | Match total | Top player |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | Deportivo Alavés | Home | 1-1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 15 Aug 2026 | Sevilla | Away | 2-1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| 27 May 2026 | Crystal Palace | Away | 1-0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| 23 May 2026 | Deportivo Alavés | Away | 1-2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| 17 May 2026 | Villarreal | Home | 2-0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 14 May 2026 | Valencia | Away | 1-1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 11 May 2026 | Girona | Home | 1-1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7 May 2026 | Strasbourg | Away | 0-1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 3 May 2026 | Getafe | Away | 0-2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Strasbourg | Home | 1-0 | 4 | 5 | 9 |