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Sporting vs Villarreal Prediction & Betting tips
On Thursday-evening, two teams will meet each other, who will run poorly in their own country, but will remain in the Europa League easily. The Sporting of Marcel Keizer takes on the Villarreal in degradation distress.
Sporting:
Marcel Keizer had a dream start at the end of November at Sporting Lisbon by winning seven games in a row. By the Christmas, however, the tide turned for Os LeƵes (de Leeuwen). Thirteen points were lost in the title race and the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the cup by arch-rival Benfica. The League Cup was won after penalties and the team overwintered effortlessly in the Europa League.
Porto lost the last two league games points, but it can not be said that Sporting is back in the title fight, because with nine points the gap is still high in the first place. Much to the disappointment of the fans of the green-and-white people, who in the last home match with white handkerchiefs already asked for the departure of Marcel Keizer.
Emperor must miss Villarreal’s two best-known names: Jeremy Mathieu and Nani, like Rodrigo Battaglia, have to leave their mark. This almost certainly means another basic place for Nemanja Gudelj, who is a fixed value under Emperor. The great star at Porto is Bruno Fernandes: the Portuguese international was this season already twenty times accurate in all competitions and is the most scoring midfielder of Europe. In the Europa League, in which Sporting with 13 points from 6 games ridden behind Arsenal, he was twice as accurate against Qarabag and Vorksla Poltava.
Villarreal:
We have known the Spanish Villarreal over the years as a subtopper, that with a limited budget plays great results together and occasionally even kicks the Champions League. This season, however, everything is different for El Submarino Amarillo: the team of coach Javier Calleja is in acute degradation distress and is after after 23 league matches only played twenty points together and is on the nineteenth and penultimate place of the Primera Division. The backlog in the safe seventeenth place is four points.
Villarreal owes the low ranking to the low number of victories and the high number of draws. The team lost nine times, so often as number seven Betis, but won only three times and played eleven times. In the meantime, the team has already played ten games in a row in all leagues without victory. Of these, it played out well enough seven. The situation is starting to become bad at Villarreal because after September the team won only one league game.
In the Europa League, the performance is a lot better. The team won a group with Spartak Moscow, Rapid Wien and Glasgow Rangers by remaining unbeaten (two wins and four draws). However, the focus of the team is not on the Europa League. Marca expects players like Sergio Asenjo, Miguel Llambrich, Daniele Bonera, Alvaro Gonzalez, Alfonso Pedraza, Vicente Iborra, Santi Cazorla, Pablo Fornals, Toko Ekambi and Gerard Moreno to be spared for the competition.
Sporting vs Villarreal head to head matches
26.07.16 CF Villarreal Sporting 1 : 0 (0 : 0)