La Liga 2018-19 – Real Madrid vs Sevilla Betting Preview

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Real Madrid are in action this weekend against Sevilla as they look to leap over them and move into top 3 in La Liga this weekend.

Real Madrid are currently 4^th, but are tied with 33 points with 3^rd placed Sevilla who have an edge over Madrid in H2H this season.

Real Madrid have came out of a winter break playing poorly having dropped 5 points from the first 2 games, but they did respond with a good win over Betis last week winning away from home 1-2 thanks to a late Ceballos goal.

Real Madrid’s biggest issues coming into this game is where are the goals going to come from with multiple main creative players out and striker Benzema injured.

Real Madrid have been relatively decent at Home this season with 6W 1D 2L, but have had a couple of massive blips where they lost to Levante and Sociedad so even at home there have been signs of inconsistency which is a perfect word to describe their season in general so far.

Madrid have been suspect defensively, however for the most part they’ve been awful defensively away from home. At the Bernabeu they’ve been rock solid conceding just 5 goals out of the total 24 that they’ve conceded in the league (19 away from home)

With 2 top scorers out, you’d have to say left back Marcelo is the player to watch from Madrid as he’s arguably their best available creator going forward for against Sevilla.

Sevilla themselves have had their fair share of problems as they’ve not shown good form prior to this game.

Sevilla are winless in 3 consecutive games in La Liga and have fallen 10 points behind league leaders Barcelona which probably means they’re out of the title race and they’re in the battle to make the TOP 4.

Sevilla’s biggest issue is away form. They haven’t won away from home since September which is 6 straight league games away from home.

Sarabia and Ben Yedder are going to be the danger men to watch out from Sevilla as both have been scoring and getting a good number of assists this season.

Sevilla won the prior match between these clubs stomping Madrid at Home 3-0 so Real will definitely look to get a revenge here.

Real Madrid have defeated Sevilla in 11 consecutive games at the Bernabeu.

Bookies have Real Madrid as favourites to win this game at 1.78. Sevilla to win is 4.35 and a draw is 4.00

Team News

Real Madrid: Courtois, Kroos and Llorente are all continue to be out while Bale, Asensio and Diaz are very unlikely to feature leaving Madrid very depleted today. Karim Benzema could play despite a broken finger.

Sevilla: Nolito and Gonalons are out for the visitors with injuries while Roque Mesa is suspended.

Betting Stats

Real Madrid are the best at covering total goal unders at home this season in the league at a massive 88.9% (8-1)!

Real Madrid are also the best at covering total goal unders at Half Time at 77.8% (7-2).

Karim Benzema is Madrid’s top scorer at the Bernabeu in the league with 3 goals.

Real Madrid average 1.77 bookings in the league at Home this season (16 bookings in 9 games).

Real Madrid are 2^nd worst at covering Handicaps at Home this season at 22.2% (2-1-6).

Sevilla are just 11^th best at Covering total goal overs this season away from home (4-6). Also under-ish.

Sevilla are 13^th at covering total half time goal overs at 30% (3-3-4).

Ben Yedder and Andre Silva are tied for the most Sevilla away goals in the league this season with 5 each.

Sevilla average an extrodionary 3 bookings per game away from home this season in the league (30 bookings in 10 games).

Sevilla are 7^th worst at covering Hanidcaps away from home at 40% (4-1-5).