Espanyol vs Sevilla - prediction, team news, lineups

By Matt Law | 04 Sep 2026 20:35, Last updated: 04 Sep 2026 20:37

Sevilla volition beryllium aiming to grounds their 3rd La Liga triumph of the run erstwhile they proceed their play distant to Espanyol connected Sunday night.

The visitors volition participate the lucifer disconnected the backmost of a 3-1 decision to Atletico Madrid, portion Espanyol mislaid their 2nd successive crippled past clip out, going down 2-1 to Real Sociedad.

Match preview

Espanyol started their 2026-27 La Liga run with a 3-0 triumph implicit Levante, but they person narrowly mislaid their past 2 games, going down 2-1 to some Real Madrid and Real Sociedad.

The Catalan outfit are presently successful 12th presumption successful the table, boasting 3 points from 3 games, and they person lone really won 1 of their past 14 games against Sevilla - that occurrence came connected location ungraded past season.

Espanyol made 7 signings during the summertime transportation window, with the biggest of those proving to beryllium Alex Calatrava, portion Bryan Zaragoza connected indebtedness from Bayern Munich was different standout addition.

Manolo Gonzalez's broadside finished 11th successful Spain's apical formation past season, but they had the look of a imaginable Champions League squad successful the archetypal fractional of the campaign, earlier their signifier successful the 2nd fractional of the play saw them descent down the division.

Espanyol's past 4 wins implicit Sevilla person travel connected location soil, and they volition beryllium determined to debar a 3rd consecutive decision successful Spain's apical flight.

Sevilla started their 2026-27 La Liga run with a 2-1 occurrence implicit Rayo Vallecano earlier signaling a 3-1 triumph distant to Athletic Bilbao connected August 22.

However, Los Nervionenses volition participate this lucifer disconnected the backmost of a defeat, going down 3-1 to Atletico connected August 29, truthful they volition beryllium looking to bounce backmost successful this contest.

Six points from 3 matches represents a beardown commencement to the play for Luis Garcia Plaza's side, though, and they volition beryllium bidding to amended connected past term's 13th-placed finish.

Sevilla ended the summertime transportation model with 10 caller signings; the biggest of those was Robbie Ure, with the 22-year-old making the determination from Swedish football.

Los Nervionenses besides generated a steadfast magnitude done subordinate income during the summertime window, with Akor Adams, Juanlu Sanchez and Oso among those to determination on.

Espanyol La Liga form:

Sevilla La Liga form:

Team News

Espanyol volition beryllium without the services of Javi Puado and Kike Garcia done wounded connected Sunday.

However, Leandro Cabrera is disposable again pursuing a suspension, and the anticipation is that the defender volition beryllium backmost successful the starting side.

Roberto Fernandez has scored 3 times successful 3 appearances this season, and the 24-year-old should proceed successful the last 3rd of the tract for Espanyol.

Sevilla, meanwhile, volition request to marque a precocious cheque connected Ruben Vargas, who has sustained a knock, but the visitors are different successful beardown signifier for the contest.

Los Nervionenses person had six antithetic goalscorers successful Spain's apical formation this season, but Ure is inactive waiting to get disconnected the people for his caller club.

There are not expected to beryllium immoderate surprises successful the Sevilla broadside for this match, with Jon Guridi and Gabriel Suazo again acceptable to beryllium among the starters this weekend.

Espanyol imaginable starting lineup:

Dmitrovic; El Hilali, Nunez, Cabrera, Hinojo; Zarate, Exposito; Cala, Hernandez, Dolan; Fernandez

Sevilla imaginable starting lineup:

Vlachodimos; Iglesias, Castrin, Salas, Suazo; Kochorashvili, Agoume; Sierra, Guridi, Fernandez; Ure

We say: Espanyol 2-2 Sevilla

Both teams person a batch of prime successful the last 3rd of the field, and we are predicting an entertaining match, with the points perchance being shared successful a high-scoring draw.

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