Matches at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán have not lacked for goals or drama this season and this is another that has the potential to serve up a fair amount of goalmouth action. Sevilla’s extra quality should see them home but on current form you’d certainly back Eibar to grab a goal.
They come into this match on a fine run of form. They’ve won their last two league games 4-0 and are bidding for a 4th straight win here. They’ve scored twice or more in all of their last 4 games in all competitions so they clearly have a few players in great touch in front of goal as they look to mount a surprise European challenge.
One of those is Sergi Enrich. The forward has netted at least once in all of Eibar’s last 4 matches, to take his tally to 9 goals in 18 starts in La Liga this term. Sevilla aren’t the perfect defensive side so he should get chances here and odds of 11/4 for Sergi Enrich to score anytime look extremely generous. Eibar have scored a very impressive 1.7 goals per game away from home this term and have netted in 90% of those matches so there is strong reason to think they will score here.
Both teams have scored in 70% of Sevilla’s home games too but invariably it is Jorge Sampaoli’s men that come out on top. The former Chile boss has been strongly linked with taking over at Barcelona in the summer and those rumours are only likely to intensify following Barca’s embarrassing 4-0 defeat in Paris. That could prove a bit of a distraction as the season progresses for Sevilla but for now he’ll be focused fully on this game, with perhaps one eye on Wednesday’s Champions League clash with Leicester, not to mention next weekend’s Seville derby at Betis.
Sevilla don’t have any real superstars though and have a squad of players of roughly equal quality so rotation doesn’t tend to have a hugely negative impact on them. They’ve won 80% of their home games in La Liga this term, scoring 2.1 goals per game on average. However, they have also conceded in 75% of their home wins so backing Sevilla to Win & Both Teams to Score at 15/8 looks to offer great value here.
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