Real Sociedad visit a Villarreal team on Sunday that is seven points behind in the League standings and that has a good part of its chances of getting into the Champions League at stake in this clash where, in addition to the points , it will try to turn. it around on goal leverage after 1-0 in the first leg.
For this, Quique Setien You can’t rely on your G starErard Morenowho was wounded at El Sadar, shortly before the call for louis de la fuente and, according to reports from Castellón, he will be out for about a month.
Extreme change
The truth is that the yellow team is very different when the ‘7’ is there than when it is not. The numbers are clear. With Moreno, they won 10 out of 16 league games (62.5%) and lost just three. However, when the starting striker was gone, the results suffered. Six losses in ten games (60%), and only two wins (20%). This is a less dangerous team without him, despite the good moment in the form of Samu Chukwueze or Jeremy Pinomain threat for Sunday.
On the other hand, it should be added that La Cerámica has been a useful field for Real in recent times. Last year they sealed their qualification for the Europa League there with a crucial 1-2 win. But it is that in the three previous visits the realistic team got seven points out of nine possible with another two 1-2, and a 1-1 draw. The decrease of Gerrard and this data in the home of the yellows, together with the recovery from the injuries of the royalists made a good result there on Sunday somewhat more likely.
rivals are reduced
For their part, the other two rivals for the Champions League also suffered major setbacks. At Atlético de Madrid, sweet before the break, he returned injured Memphis DePay of concentration in the Netherlands, and they should try it. He may miss Sunday’s game against Betis. It will be missed channelswho was punished with four fights for telling Mateu Lahoz that he had already prepared his expulsion. He will miss the main clashes, although he will come only for the crucial clash against Real. Opportunity. Therefore, Betis will be in those four games without its two stars: Channels and Fekirs, very sensitive drops.
Source: La Verdad
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