Villarreal – Sevilla

Villarreal hosts trophy holders FC Sevilla in an all Spanish Round 16 Europa League clash.

Villarreal is doing marvelous this season under Marcelinho and especially lately they turned a lot of heads with the performance vs. the top teams … a couple of great games vs. Barcelona or the draw with Real Madrid. The Yellow Submarine is in excellent shape, they are at the top of their game, playing the best football they have played so far this season … over the weekend it was a 4-1 win vs. Celta Vigo so Villarreal will enter this game with a lot of confidence. They reached the Round 16 after two wins with Salzburg in the previous stage, 3-1 and 2-1. Jokic, Marin, Bailly, Bruno and Pina will all miss from Villarreal’s lineup today. Gio dos Santos and Pereira are questionable.

Villarreal lineup: Asenjo – Mario, Ruiz, Musacchio, Costa – Espinosa, Santos, Trigueros, Cheryshev – Moreno, Vietto

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Sevilla is the best team in the Europa League over the past few years and they seem as motivated as ever to reach the final again this season. Sevilla played some very good football to pass Borussia Monchengladbach with two wins in the previous round (1-0, 3-2) and are in good form at the moment … coming after a 4-3 away win with Deportivo La Coruna. Sevilla will not have Aspas, Carrico and Beto available today.

FC Sevilla lineup: Rico – Figueiras, Pareja, Kolodziejczak, Navarro – Iborra, Krychowiak – Vidal, Banega, Reyes, Bacca

Both teams play nice attacking football and especially lately have been involved in high scoring games, scoring and conceding goals. Sevilla will have to deputize second choice keeper Rico again, despite a poor performance over the weekend with Deportivo. I don’t expect a very open game, but it should be relatively free flowing … we should see some good football from two positive teams and in the end the offensive quality for both sides will prevail. My tip will be both teams to score … a result that happened in 7 of the last 8 combined games played by Villarreal and Sevilla (only Sevilla – Atletico two weeks ago did not see both teams to score) … so no wonder odds are dropping on this bet. Earlier this season Sevilla won 2-1 at home. Correct prediction: Villarreal – Sevilla 2-1.

Pick: Both to score
Odds: 1.80 @ Doxxbet
Stake: 9
Possible profit: 7.20
Event date: 12 March