Football Results

This Saturday’s match of the 20th round of La Liga is clash between 14th-placed Espanyol and sixth-positioned Sevilla, which has five points more at the moment. However, the team from Catalonia is in much better shape in the league lately. We need to add that both team won last week in the 1st leg of the Copa del Ray quarter-finals.

Espanyol

Before that both teams won three consecutive home matches, which means their guests rarely won points in recent matches. Rgith because of that Espanyol fans believe in positive outcome of the match with the guests from Andalusia, especially as Espanyol won in the league two and drew two matches, while three days ago it somewhat surprisingly won at home it city rival Barcelona 1-0 in the first leg of the King’s Cup quarter-finals.

Besides, coach Flored had sent a combined team to face Barcelona and now against Sevilla will have several rested players on his disposal, which is especially true for defence and midfield. In previous league match played at home the team from Catalonia won Athletic Bilbao 1-0 and now it has even eight points more than teams in the drop zone. Let’s add that left back Caricol will skip the Saturday’s match as he is suspended, while not fully ready forwards Garcia and Jurada are questionable.

Probable lineups Espanyol: Pau Lopez – Javi Lopez, Duarte, Hermoso, Villa – Darder, David Lopez, Fuego – Baptistao, Moreno, Piatti

FC Sevilla

We have said in the introduction that Sevilla won very valuable victory in the 1st leg of the King’s Cup quarter-finals played three days ago as it won currently second-placed team in La Liga, Atletico Madrid, by 2-1. In that way the Andalustians continued with good results in this competition, as before that match they defeated Cadiz two times. However, in the league Sevilla cannot find the right recipe despite fact that it changed the manager.

Sevilla won just one point in last five rounds of La Liga, when it played a goalless draw at home with Levante, while it lost away to Real Madrid, Sociedad and Alaves and at home to city rival Betis. All this led to moving down to the sixth place in the table, although this team still has just two points fewer than Villarreal and three than Real Madrid. Let’s add that due to injuries still out of action are only stoppers Carricoa and Pareja.

Probable lineups FC Sevilla: Rico – Mercado, Kjaer, Lenglet, Escudero – N'Zonzi, Pizzarro – Navas, Banega, Nolito – Ben Yedder

Verdict:

After winning the 1st quarter-final match of the King’s Cup three days ago we expect from the two teams to play well in La Liga, and consequently we have opted for a pick with goals on both sides.

Pick: both teams to score 1.87 - 87/100 @1XBet