Levante vs Espanyol Match Preview

Match info:

Levante vs Espanyol

Competition – Spanish Primera Liga

Stadium – Ciudad de Valencia

Date: 26th October 2013

Kick-off time – 21:00 GMT+1

9th place Levante host 7th position Espanyol this Saturday evening at the Estadio Ciudad de Valencia in the Spanish Primera Liga.


Recent form:

Levante – W L W D D D W

Espanyol – W L L L W W L

Levante  have lost just 1 of their last 7 while Espanyol have lost 4 of their last 7.

Form

The Spanish Primera Table currently looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Real Madrid 34 27 6 1 74 22 +52 87
2 Girona 34 23 5 6 73 42 +31 74
3 Barcelona 34 22 7 5 70 43 +27 73
4 Atlético de Madrid 34 21 4 9 63 39 +24 67
5 Athletic Bilbao 34 17 10 7 55 33 +22 61
6 Real Sociedad 34 14 12 8 48 35 +13 54
7 Real Betis 34 13 13 8 43 39 +4 52
8 Valencia 34 13 8 13 37 39 -2 47
9 Villarreal 34 12 9 13 56 58 -2 45
10 Getafe 34 10 13 11 41 47 -6 43
11 Alaves 34 11 8 15 32 38 -6 41
12 Sevilla 34 10 11 13 45 46 -1 41
13 Osasuna 34 11 6 17 37 51 -14 39
14 Las Palmas 34 10 7 17 30 43 -13 37
15 Celta Vigo 34 8 10 16 40 52 -12 34
16 Rayo Vallecano 34 7 13 14 27 43 -16 34
17 Mallorca 34 6 14 14 27 40 -13 32
18 Cadiz 34 4 14 16 23 49 -26 26
19 Granada 34 4 9 21 36 64 -28 21
20 Almeria 34 2 11 21 33 67 -34 17

A win for Levante could move them as high as 5th while a win for Espanyol could see them go 4th.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 12 times in recent years and Espanyol have come out on top most often (Levante 4 wins, Espanyol 5 wins, 3 draws). 

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 2:3, 3:2, 2:1, 3:1 and 1:0.

Possible line-ups

Levante

Navas
Navarro
Juanfran
López
Rodas
Diop
Junior
Xumetra
García
Ivanschitz
Diawara

Espanyol 

Casilla
Sidnei
Moreno
Fuentes
López
Simão
Abraham
Lanzarote
David López
PizzI
García

Bookmakers make Levante slight favourites for this game.

Odds: Levante (7/5) Draw (23/10) Espanyol (19/10)Gamingtips Prediction – Levante 1:1 Espanyol 

Just 2 points separated these two sides last season in the Spanish Primera.

Levante finished 11th scoring 40 goals in 38 games and conceding 57.

Espanyol finished 2 points behind in 13th – they scored 43 goals in 38 matches and conceded 52.

Levante have won 4 of the last 5 meetings against Espanyol at home.

Levante have lost just 1 game in 8 while Espanyol ended a 3 game losing run against Atletico Madrid last time.

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