Girona vs Real Betis - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Betis volition purpose to enactment a large European setback down them connected Tuesday evening erstwhile they question to Estadi Montilivi to instrumentality connected Girona.

November’s 1-1 gully stretched Betis’s unbeaten tally to 3 matches against Girona, with the hosts signaling conscionable 1 triumph successful 15 meetings crossed each competitions since October 2010.

Match preview

After conceding the opening extremity successful their Europa League quarter-final necktie against Braga, Betis struck 3 times without reply crossed the 2nd fractional of the archetypal limb and the archetypal fractional of the 2nd limb to found a commanding 3-1 advantage—seemingly putting them successful rod presumption to progress.

However, what followed was a melodramatic collapse, with Manuel Pellegrini’s broadside conceding 4 unanswered goals to Pau Victor, Vitor Carvalho, Ricardo Horta, and Jean-Baptiste Gorby, crashing retired of Europe’s second-tier contention successful disappointing fashion.

El Glorioso’s exit capped a hard week for La Liga sides successful Europe, arsenic Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Celta Vigo besides saw their continental adventures travel to an end.

With Barcelona and Real Madrid already assured of Champions League shot adjacent season, Betis present absorption connected consolidating 5th place, which would unafraid a Europa League berth.

Since stringing unneurotic 3 consecutive league wins astatine the commencement of February, Betis person failed to triumph immoderate of their past 7 matches, taking lone 5 points from a imaginable 21.

That tally has allowed Celta to adjacent the spread to wrong 2 points, leaving Betis with small borderline for mistake successful the contention for 5th with 7 games remaining.

Just a twelvemonth aft their top-flight return, Girona stunned galore with a third-place decorativeness successful 2023-24, earning Champions League shot for the archetypal clip successful their history.

However, past word proved a world check, arsenic Girona finished conscionable 1 constituent supra the driblet portion and suffered an aboriginal exit successful their Champions League debut.

After 2 contrasting seasons, Michel’s men present find themselves in mid-table, level connected points with 10th-placed Espanyol pursuing a hard-fought 1-1 gully with Real Madrid past clip out.

No La Liga broadside person conceded less goals implicit the past 5 gameweeks than Los Blanquivermells, who person collected 8 points and mislaid conscionable once—to Osasuna—during that run.

Central to this has been Girona's location form; thing they volition beryllium looking to capitalise connected successful their adjacent outing, having won 3 of their astir caller 4 matches astatine the Montilivi.

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Team News

Juan Carlos and Portu are some sidelined with genu injuries and volition not diagnostic for Girona, who are besides without Abel Ruiz owed to a musculus problem.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen has made conscionable 2 appearances since joining from Barcelona, arsenic helium continues to retrieve from a hamstring wounded sustained astatine the commencement of February.

Donny van de Beek (Achilles tendon) and Vladyslav Vanat (hamstring) implicit the database of confirmed absentees for the hosts, portion Ricard Artero is simply a uncertainty with an ankle issue.

Betis winger Antony is suspended aft picking up his 5th yellowish paper of the play against Osasuna, ruling him retired of this encounter.

Defensive duo Junior Firpo (muscle) and Angel Ortiz (shoulder) besides missed the erstwhile crippled and stay large doubts for Monday’s clash.

Girona imaginable starting lineup:

Gazzaniga; Rincon, Vitor Reis, Blind, Martinez; Beltran, Witsel; Tsygankov, Ounahi, Lemar; Echeverri

Real Betis imaginable starting lineup:

Valles; Gomez, Llorente, Bartra, Bellerin; Fidalgo, Amrabat, Fornals; Ezzalzouli, Cucho, Ruibal

We say: Girona 2-1 Real Betis

Girona person been beardown astatine location successful caller weeks, and facing a Betis broadside inactive reeling from a large European setback gives them an fantabulous accidental to unafraid each 3 points.

We are backing the hosts to borderline retired their visitors and travel retired connected top.

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