Villarreal vs Real Betis - prediction, team news, lineups

Real Betis volition beryllium targeting a 3rd consecutive triumph successful each competitons erstwhile they question to Estadio de la Ceramica for Monday's La Liga clash against Villarreal.

Meanwhile, the Yellow Submarine are inactive searching for their archetypal triumph nether caput manager Inigo Perez, who replaced Marcelino successful the summer. 

Match preview

Perez arrived astatine Villarreal with a beardown estimation aft enjoying important occurrence with Rayo Vallecano, the nine helium guided to an eighth-place decorativeness successful 2024-25 earlier helium led them to the Conference League final.

However, Andoni Iraola's erstwhile adjunct has been incapable to enactment his magic successful the aboriginal stages of his Villarreal tenure, having started with a five-game winless tally successful each competitions.

The Yellow Submarine kicked disconnected the run with consecutive 2-2 draws against Racing Santander and Atletico Madrid earlier they fell to back-to-back losses against Alaves and Deportivo La Coruna.

Perez experienced different disappointing effect successful the archetypal Champions League lucifer of his coaching career, with a Santiago Mourino header and a stoppage-time ain extremity proving fruitless successful a 3-2 decision to Borussia Dortmund successful Germany.

The Villarreal brag volition beryllium hopeless to oversee an upturn successful fortunes successful a engaged week that features games against Betis, Malaga and Levante successful the lead-up to the three-week planetary break. 

Perez should astatine slightest fancy his chances of overseeing a affirmative result, considering helium has ne'er mislaid successful immoderate of his erstwhile 5 managerial meetings against Betis (W1, D4).

Betis, meanwhile, person made a beardown commencement to the 2026-26 campaign, having recorded 4 victories successful their opening 5 competitory matches, including a 1-0 triumph against Real Madrid successful their astir caller league outing.

Los Verdiblancos followed that effect with a hard-fought 3-2 distant triumph against Lille successful their archetypal Champions League outing since the 2005-06 radical stage.

Marc Bartra netted a brace arsenic Betis came from down connected 2 occasions, earlier Troy Parrott, who scored the victor against Real Madrid, netted connected his Champions League debut with what proved to beryllium the winning goal.

Betis volition present crook their absorption backmost to La Liga action, with Manuel Pellegrini's broadside sitting successful 5th spot and conscionable 3 points adrift of the apical 2 of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The Andalusian outfit managed to instrumentality 4 points from their 2 games against Villarreal past term, including a melodramatic gully connected their astir caller sojourn to La Ceramica which Antony netted a brace to rescue a constituent from 2 goals down.

That effect made it 4 consecutive head-to-head distant games without decision since losing 2-0 successful October 2021 (W2, D2). 

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Team News

Villarreal are apt to beryllium without the services of Carlos Romero and Juan Foyth, who is improbable to diagnostic aft missing the past 2 matches done injury.

Goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi is acceptable to marque his La Liga debut aft replacing Luiz Junior for the constrictive Champions League decision to Borussia Dortmund.

Perez is acceptable to freshen up his broadside amid the engaged schedule, with Alex Freeman, Nicolas Pepe, Alberto Moleiro, Ayoze Perez and Gerard Moreno each successful contention to commencement Monday's fixture.

As for the visitors, Aitor Ruibal is continuing to enactment connected his rehabilitation from a genu wounded helium sustained astatine the extremity of past season.

Abde Ezzalzouli and Diego Llorente should beryllium disposable for selection, with the second acceptable to deterioration a disguise aft sustaining a breached chemoreceptor successful the triumph implicit Real Madrid. 

Brazilian winger Antony is expected to retrieve from unwellness successful clip to instrumentality his spot connected the close flank astatine La Ceramica. 

Villarreal imaginable starting lineup:

Gulacsi; Freeman, Navarro, Veiga, Cardona; Comesana, Saliba; Pepe, Gerard, Moleiro; Perez

Real Betis imaginable starting lineup:

Valles; Bellerin, Bartra, Natan, Garcia; Roca, Bernal; Antony, Isco, Fornals; Parrott

We say: Villarreal 1-1 Real Betis

Perez could bash with a triumph to alleviate the aboriginal unit gathering connected his shoulders, but with Betis acceptable to airs a pugnacious test, we deliberation helium volition person to settee for a 5th gully successful six managerial clashes against Los Verdiblancos.

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