Espanyol vs Levante Preview

Although they started the season strongly, Levante have been awful recently and their fans will hope that they have recovered well from the international break to get their season going again while Espanyol have started to improve and they are always a strong side when they play at home.

Espanyol have begun the season well – they ended last season in the top half of the league table and despite a few players leaving them they still look good in this new season.

They did well enough competitively when they faced Real Madrid before the international break and have won their last two home games scoring at least 6 goals in total.

Gerrard Moreno scored 13 goals for them last season and has already scored 3 in his last 4 games this term.

He will lead here again and fans will expect a goal scoring performance from him.

No one can tell what happened to Levante before the international break – after winning the Segunda division last season, they started their return to the top flight well but they have since lost that momentum as well as form and come into this game off the back of two consecutive losses in which they failed to score.

They lost one game by 4 goals and the other to an Alaves side that had no wins before playing them.

They need to get back to winning ways as soon as possible or face the prospect of struggling with relegation early on.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Espanyol

LAST FIVE GAMES						DATE	COMPETITION
L	Real Madrid		2-0		Espanyol	Oct 1, 2017	Spanish Primera División
W	Espanyol		4-1		Deportivo La Coruña	Sep 24, 2017	Spanish Primera División
D	Villarreal		0-0		Espanyol	Sep 21, 2017	Spanish Primera División
W	Espanyol		2-1		Celta Vigo	Sep 18, 2017	Spanish Primera División
L	Barcelona		5-0		Espanyol	Sep 9, 2017	Spanish Primera División

Levante

LAST FIVE GAMES						DATE	COMPETITION
L	Levante		0-2		Alavés	Sep 30, 2017	Spanish Primera División
L	Real Betis		4-0		Levante	Sep 25, 2017	Spanish Primera División
W	Levante		3-0		Real Sociedad	Sep 21, 2017	Spanish Primera División
D	Levante		1-1		Valencia	Sep 16, 2017	Spanish Primera División
D	Real Madrid		1-1		Levante	Sep 9, 2017	Spanish Primera División

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES					DATE	COMPETITION
Levante		2-1		Espanyol	Apr 15, 2016	Spanish Primera División
Espanyol		2-1		Levante	Dec 15, 2015	Spanish Copa del Rey
Espanyol		1-1		Levante	Dec 7, 2015	Spanish Primera División
Levante		1-1		Espanyol	Dec 3, 2015	Spanish Copa del Rey
Levante		2-2		Espanyol	Apr 17, 2015	Spanish Primera División

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Spanish Primera:

Spanish Primera Table

Spanish Primera Results