Levante vs Sevilla - prediction, team news, lineups

Sevilla volition caput connected their travels for Monday's La Liga clash against Levante astatine the Estadi Cuitat de Valencia.

The hosts caput into the contention successful 17th spot successful La Liga, portion Sevilla are successful 5th spot pursuing a beardown commencement to the season. 

Match preview

After narrowly avoiding the driblet past term, a instrumentality of 1 triumph from six games suggests Levante volition beryllium successful different relegation combat this season. 

That sole triumph came successful an emphatic 5-2 scoreline against Real Betis connected matchday three, but alternatively than gathering connected that awesome result, they added conscionable a constituent to their tally successful their past 3 outings earlier the planetary window.

After playing retired a goalless matter against newly-promoted Malaga, the Granotes enactment successful a valiant effort successful a 4-2 decision against reigning La Liga champions Barcelona, earlier they fell to a 3-1 nonaccomplishment successful their distant gathering with determination rivals Villarreal.

Levante entered the existent matchday with a crippled successful manus connected the teams astir them aft past month's location clash against Athletic Club was postponed, but they volition inactive beryllium acrophobic that they are sitting conscionable extracurricular the bottommost 3 connected extremity quality and lone person 1 much constituent than astatine this signifier of past season.

They tin astatine slightest instrumentality comfortableness from the information they person won 7 of their erstwhile 9 location games successful La Liga (D1, L1), with their lone decision successful that play coming against Barcelona successful their astir caller outing astatine the Cuitat de Valencia.

One of those 7 victories came successful April's gathering against Sevilla, which saw Ivan Romero nett a brace arsenic Levante completed a league treble implicit the Andalusian side. 

Meanwhile, Luis Garcia Plaza has made a affirmative commencement to his archetypal afloat play successful the Sevilla dugout, having seen his charges grounds 4 victories, 1 and 2 defeats successful 7 La Liga outings.

Both of those losses came against the existent apical 2 astatine the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, including a 3-1 decision to Atletico Madrid astatine the extremity of August.

Sevilla bounced backmost from that effect with a three-game unbeaten tally that included back-to-back 1-0 victories against Valencia and Deportivo A Coruna, earlier they were stopped successful their tracks by different 3-1 nonaccomplishment astatine location to leaders Barcelona. 

Youssouf Fofana enactment Sevilla up with his archetypal La Liga goal, but the Andalusian broadside yet had nary effect to a Raphinha hat-trick. 

Having had 3 weeks to bespeak upon that result, Sevilla instrumentality to enactment arsenic 1 of 4 teams yet to suffer a LaLiga distant crippled this season, having won 2 and drawn 1 of their 3 roadworthy trips. 

Sevilla whitethorn person mislaid distant to Levante past term, but they person emerged victorious successful 3 of their erstwhile 5 visits to the Cuitat de Valencia, scoring astatine slightest 3 goals successful 2 of those victories. 

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Team News

Levante are expected to beryllium without the services of Hugo Sotelo and Karl Etta Eyong owed to genu and musculus injuries respectively. 

Liverpool loanee Ifeanyi Ndukwe is pushing for his archetypal commencement aft featuring arsenic a substitute successful Levante’s past 2 games earlier the planetary window.

In the last third, Ivan Romero volition beryllium looking to prime up wherever helium near disconnected earlier the three-week break, with the striker aiming to people successful a 3rd consecutive game.

As for Sevilla, defender Marcao is acceptable for a spell connected the sidelines aft picking up a musculus wounded successful the affable against Aston Villa astatine the commencement of the month.

Forward Lucas Stassin is successful a contention against clip to retrieve from an adductor contented successful clip for Monday's distant trip. 

Key attacker Ruben Vargas is acceptable to marque his instrumentality to the matchday squad aft missing the past six league games with a genu issue. 

Levante imaginable starting lineup:

Ryan; Toljan, Dela, Ndukwe, Sanchez; Olasagasti, Rey, Bardeli; Brugui, Fernandez, Romero

Sevilla imaginable starting lineup:

Vlachodimos; Iglesias, Castrin, Salas, Suazo; Kochorashvili, Agoume, Fofana; Sierra, Correia, Ure

We say: Levante 1-1 Sevilla

Levante person been a beardown unit astatine location since the mediate of February, but we deliberation a stock of the spoils volition beryllium the champion they tin anticipation for erstwhile they instrumentality connected a Sevilla broadside that are yet to suffer connected their travels this season.

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