Real Betis vs Levante

Real Betis will be looking to maintain their upturn in form when they take on rock-bottom Levante in a must-win La Liga match-up at the Estadio Benito Villamarín.

Fresh from securing Europa League knock-out football thanks to a 2-0 win over Ferencváros in midweek, Betis return to domestic affairs, looking to build on last weekend’s 2-0 victory away to Elche. Despite losing back-to-back league matches beforehand, ‘Los Verdiblancos’ have registered their highest points tally (24) after 14 La Liga rounds since 2012/13. Perhaps surprisingly, 45.83% of their total league points this season have come at home, where Betis have won just 42.86% of their matches to date (W3, D2, L2). Benito Villamarín has been a venue of entertainment lately, as three of Betis’ last five La Liga fixtures here have seen 4+ goals and both teams scoring. With three of their previous four top-flight H2Hs here featuring over 2.5 overall goals, another high-scoring contest could be on the cards.

In the meantime, a thoroughly upsetting start to the season sees Levante enter this round bottom of the table as the only La Liga side yet to pick up a league win so far (D7, L7). Taking the 2020/21 campaign into the equation, the visitors are now winless in their last 22 top-flight matches (D10, L12) since a narrow 1-0 triumph over Eibar in April. Adding to a long list of problems, Javier Pereira’s men have registered just one win in their last ten La Liga visits to Andalusian sides (D3, L6), courtesy of a 2-1 beating of Granada in December 2019, failing to keep a clean sheet in each of those ten fixtures. Topically, Levante have suffered four defeats in their previous five La Liga visits to Betis (W1), conceding an average of 2.5 goals per loss.