Real Betis vs Real Madrid - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Madrid volition beryllium aiming to widen their cleanable commencement to the 2026-27 play erstwhile they caput to La Cartuja for Friday's clash with Real Betis. 

Los Blancos caput into matchday 4 successful second spot successful La Liga and level connected 9 points with Barcelona, portion the hosts are successful seventh spot aft collecting six points from 3 games. 

Match preview

Betis are conscionable days distant from opening their archetypal Champions League run successful 21 years aft achieving a fifth-placed decorativeness past season.

However, Los Verdiblancos volition request to negociate a daunting crippled against Real Madrid earlier they tin crook their absorption to Tuesday's European gathering with Lille successful France.

Betis volition caput into Friday's fixture connected the backmost of a dense 5-2 decision against Levante, a effect that came arsenic a astonishment arsenic they had started the run with consecutive 1-0 victories implicit Real Sociedad and Valencia.

Marc Bartra and Rodrigo Riquelme struck successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Betis came from down connected a mates of occasions, but they had yet had nary effect to Roger Brugue's brace and Jon Ander Olasagasti's precocious effort arsenic they slumped to their archetypal decision of the season.

Manuel Pellegrini knows his broadside tin sick spend different anemic antiaircraft show against a Real Madrid broadside that racked up 10 goals successful 3 games, though his charges volition astatine slightest fancy their chances of troubling the scorers aft uncovering the nett successful 11 consecutive league games since playing retired a goalless gully with Espanyol successful April.

Betis are besides looking to widen their unbeaten location tally against Real Madrid, having avoided decision successful each of their past 4 head-to-head meetings successful beforehand of their supporters, including a melodramatic 1-1 gully successful April that saw Hector Bellerin nett a stoppage-time equaliser.

Jose Mourinho, meanwhile, has enjoyed a palmy commencement to his 2nd spell arsenic Real Madrid boss, which began with a hard-fought 2-1 distant triumph implicit Espanyol.

Real Madrid made lighter enactment of their archetypal 2 location outings of the season, hammering Real Sociedad 4-1 earlier netting 4 much goals successful Sunday's clash with newly-promoted Malaga.

Jude Bellingham opened the scoring and past played a large relation successful Alfonso Herrero's ain goal, earlier Kylian Mbappe netted his 60th La Liga extremity to widen Real Madrid's pb to 3 wrong 30 minutes.

Substitute Arda Guler completed the rout successful the closing stages of the contest, meaning Real Madrid person hosted Malaga 18 times successful La Liga without losing a azygous crippled (W15, D3).

With Barcelona playing connected Sunday, Mourinho's broadside volition determination 3 points wide astatine the apical of La Liga if they triumph distant astatine Betis for the archetypal clip since signaling a 1-0 occurrence successful August 2021.

The Portuguese manager has antecedently experienced mixed results against Los Verdiblancos, with his erstwhile 8 meetings producing 4 wins, 1 gully and 3 defeats, though helium won 3 of his 4 encounters successful his archetypal spell arsenic Real Madrid boss. 

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Team News

The hosts are incapable to telephone upon the injured trio of Diego Conde, Aitor Ruibal and Giovani Lo Celso. 

Dani Ceballos has returned to Betis connected a escaped transportation from Real Madrid, though determination is simply a anticipation his deficiency of lucifer fittingness whitethorn contradict him an outing against his erstwhile club.

Pellegrini is acceptable to marque changes to the broadside that started the dense decision against Levante, with Diego Llorente, Pablo Fornals and Cucho Hernandez each pushing for starting spots. 

As for Real Madrid, Mourinho remains without the services of Raul Asencio, Ferland Mendy, Thiago Pitarch and Rodrygo owed to injury.

Defender Eder Militao is making advancement successful his betterment from a superior hamstring injury, but helium is improbable to instrumentality earlier the planetary break.

Aurelien Tchouameni and Endrick are the closest to making their respective returns to action, though the brace are successful a contention against clip to beryllium their fittingness successful clip for Friday's contest.

After altering his broadside for the commanding triumph implicit Malaga, Mourinho could callback Denzel Dumfries, Ibrahima Konate, Bernardo Silva and Arda Guler for Friday's travel to Andalusia. 

Real Betis imaginable starting lineup:

Valles; Bellerin, Llorente, Natan, Garcia; Roca, Fornals; Antony, Isco, Riquelme; Cucho

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Courtois; Dumfries, Konate, Huijsen, Cucurella; Valverde, Silva; Guler, Bellingham, Vinicius; Mbappe

We say: Real Betis 1-3 Real Madrid

Real Madrid whitethorn beryllium winless successful their past 4 distant games against Betis, but they question to La Cartuja with important momentum and assurance aft netting 10 goals crossed their opening 3 games.

We judge their array of attacking endowment volition origin excessively galore problems for a Betis defence that looked susceptible against Levante, which is wherefore we are predicting a comparatively comfy triumph for Mourinho's charges. 

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