Elche-Sevilla is a match of the thirty-sixth day of La Liga and is played Wednesday at 7:30 pm: lineups, predictions, TV and streaming.
Only bad luck prevented Sevilla from making the city derby with Betis its own, which at the “Sanchez Pizjuan” last Sunday managed to snatch a draw (0-0) despite richly deserving the defeat. Jose Luis Mendilibar’s team played another excellent game despite being on the field for a full 120 minutes a few days earlier against Juventus in the Europa League semifinal return leg.
The red and white coach made several rotations given the energy expenditure against the Bianconeri but the performance was still of quality. An eventual victory would have allowed Sevilla to join Athletic Bilbao on 50 points and thus that seventh position that guarantees a pass to the next Conference League. A “consolation prize,” if you will, in case things go wrong in the Europa League: next May 31, the Andalusians will attempt to lift for the seventh time in the last 20 years what has now become “their” cup. The opponent, we recall, will be Jose Mourinho’s Roma, who reached the final after beating Bayer Leverkusen.
The pride of Elche
A scenario that, in any case, would have been impossible to assume just two months ago, when Sevilla was even floundering in the relegation zone and had just changed coaches for the second time this season.
Fidel of Elche
Mendilibar’s men will try to return to success in the midweek round against bottom-of-the-table Elche, already relegated weeks ago. Sebastian Beccacece’s green-and-whites, with no particular pressure for some time now, have been trying to redeem a disastrous year in recent games: at home they beat Rayo Vallecano and none other than Atletico Madrid, while last Saturday they emerged unscathed from the Getafe away game against a team in the race for safety and hungry for points, drawing 1-1.
The Prediction
Elche is creating problems for several teams in this league finale but against an in-form Sevilla determined to finish in seventh place will be able to do little: the red and whites should have the better of things, taking home their fifth consecutive away win.
The probable formations of Elche-Sevilla
- ELCHE (4-3-3): Badía; Palacios, Bigas, Clerc, Blanco; Nwankwo, Gumbau, Nteka; Morente, Fidel, Boyé.
- SEVILLE (4-2-3-1): Dmitrovic; Jesus Navas, Badé, Gudelj, Acuña; Gueye, Fernando; Ocampos, Suso, Bryan Gil; En-Nesyri.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-2
