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Valencia vs Sevilla Prediction & Betting tips
The match between Valencia and Seville in the Mestalla on Wednesday evening is perhaps the best meeting of this midweek round in La Liga. Both teams are each other’s direct rivals in the battle for European football.
Valencia:
Valencia chairman Peter Lim raised a certain amount of eyebrows last month by sending out the immensely popular and successful coach Marcelino because of a difference in opinion. With that, the club from the orange city actually threw in its own windows, because under successor Albert Celades, Valencia is having a hard time. After the 3-1 defeat of last weekend at Osasuna, Celades was mostly hiding behind the red card for Rodrigo Moreno, which he thought was wrong, but with eleven players on the pitch, his team didn’t make much of it. Jaume Domenech had a busy evening in Pamplona, because Osasuna was allowed to shoot his goal 29 times (!).
The problems are therefore piling up for Valencia, which due to the absence of Rodrigo (suspended) and Kevin Gameiro (injured) with Maxi Gomez on Wednesday evening probably has only one pure attacker at its disposal. The Uruguayan attacker is likely to be assisted by the talents Lee Kang-in and Ferran Torres, but both are more midfielders than attackers. Even in a defensive sense, things are going well, since right back Cristiano Piccini is still in the rag basket. With no less than sixteen goals in barely ten rounds, Los Che has the second-worst rear of La Liga. So that does not promise much good for the squatter against Seville.
Sevilla:
Seville is also a team under construction. The Andalusians have since this summer with former national coach Julen Lopetegui at the helm of a new trainer who may try to forge a team of new players into a close team. That of course goes with trial and error, although people in Sanchez Pizjuan will look back with a good feeling on the first quarter of the season. Sevilla is in the Europa League on course for the winter, and takes a fifth place in La Liga in the battle for qualification for the Champions League. Los Nerviones are doing particularly well in a defensive way, because apart from the big defeat in and against Barcelona (4-0), they only had to take seven goals against in nine league matches. Seville managed to keep its goal clean in no fewer than eight of the thirteen official games.
Also last weekend in front of home crowd against Getafe (2-0), Sevilla was strong again. “This was a great game, my team played great,” said Lopetegui. ‘My team manages the transition to perfection. Even if we have to defend, we never lose sight of the attack. ” His team is indeed well put together, although Lopetegui still lacks a real thief. Luuk de Jong is quite popular with both his fellow players and with the fans, but a league goal in nine games is of course not something to write home about. Last weekend Javier Hernandez was preferred, who immediately crowned that confidence with a goal. However, the Mexican never scored more than two league goals in the last two seasons.
Valencia vs Sevilla head to head matches
31.03.19 LL Sevilla Valencia 0 : 1
08.12.18 LL Valencia Sevilla 1 : 1
10.03.18 LL Sevilla Valencia 0 : 2
21.10.17 LL Valencia Sevilla 4 : 0
16.04.17 LL Valencia Sevilla 0 : 0