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 19 13 4 2 43 19 +24 43
2 Atlético de Madrid 18 12 5 1 33 12 +21 41
3 Barcelona 19 12 2 5 51 22 +29 38
4 Athletic Bilbao 19 10 6 3 29 17 +12 36
5 Villarreal 18 8 6 4 34 30 +4 30
6 Mallorca 19 9 3 7 19 21 -2 30
7 Real Sociedad 18 7 4 7 16 13 +3 25
8 Girona 18 7 4 7 26 25 +1 25
9 Rayo Vallecano 19 6 7 6 22 22 +0 25
10 Real Betis 18 6 7 5 21 22 -1 25
11 Osasuna 18 6 7 5 23 27 -4 25
12 Celta Vigo 19 7 3 9 28 30 -2 24
13 Las Palmas 18 6 4 8 23 27 -4 22
14 Sevilla 18 6 4 8 20 27 -7 22
15 Leganes 18 4 6 8 17 28 -11 18
16 Alaves 18 4 5 9 21 30 -9 17
17 Getafe 18 3 7 8 11 15 -4 16
18 Espanyol 18 4 3 11 16 30 -14 15
19 Valencia 18 2 6 10 17 28 -11 12
20 Real Valladolid 18 3 3 12 12 37 -25 12

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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