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 32 25 6 1 70 22 +48 81
2 Barcelona 32 21 7 4 64 37 +27 70
3 Girona 32 21 5 6 67 40 +27 68
4 Atlético de Madrid 32 19 4 9 59 38 +21 61
5 Athletic Bilbao 32 16 10 6 52 30 +22 58
6 Real Sociedad 32 13 12 7 46 34 +12 51
7 Real Betis 32 12 12 8 40 38 +2 48
8 Valencia 32 13 8 11 35 34 +1 47
9 Villarreal 32 11 9 12 51 55 -4 42
10 Getafe 32 9 13 10 38 44 -6 40
11 Osasuna 32 11 6 15 37 46 -9 39
12 Sevilla 32 9 10 13 41 45 -4 37
13 Las Palmas 32 10 7 15 30 39 -9 37
14 Alaves 32 9 8 15 28 38 -10 35
15 Rayo Vallecano 32 7 13 12 27 39 -12 34
16 Mallorca 32 6 13 13 26 38 -12 31
17 Celta Vigo 32 7 10 15 37 47 -10 31
18 Cadiz 32 4 13 15 22 45 -23 25
19 Granada 32 3 9 20 33 61 -28 18
20 Almeria 32 1 11 20 31 64 -33 14

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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