Betis hosts Getafe in round 4 of Spanish LaLiga. The match will be played on Sunday, September 15th at Estadio Benito Villamarín (Sevilla)
Betis started up the season very crumpled: in the first round, goalkeeper Joel Robles apparently didn’t conquer his nerves (it was his first match in the rank of the main goalkeeper after the departure of Pau Lopez) and got a quick red card - Betis had little possession of the ball (47%) and lost with a 1:2 score. The team held the second match terribly and looking at their game, I wanted to cry. The match against Barcelona proved that Betis is turning into an ordinary middle-class team - there will be no dogmatic football of Kike Setien under the management of Joan Rubi. In the third match, Betis finally managed to gain three points: The Green-Whites beat Leganes at Benito Villamarin with a 2:1 score. Yes, Betis was good in the game against Leganes, but there are two points: 1) Leganes is bad now; 2) Betis's style still became much more primitive than it was under Setien (it applies not only to matches against top clubs).
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Getafe is also not very impressive in this season so far, but it’s worth saying that the principles of the team haven’t changed much. Yes, Atletico simply shocked the team of Bordalas in the first round: 4 obvious goal attempts (according to Understat) in the match is too much for the quality-built defense of Bordalas, but the team of Simeone deserves praise rather than the critics of the Bordalas team. In the next two matches, Getafe allowed only three goal attempts (3 attempts in 2 matches), and it is a normal and working result for the Bordalas team, which could be observed in the last season either. Now let's take a little more detail about the most recent match of Getafe (a game against Alaves, 1: 1): the opponent put the Bordalas team in an uncomfortable position – it chose a rather cautious option with the 5-3-2 scheme and gave the ball to Getafe (61-39 in terms of possession), which was the right move. Getafe has problems in positional attack, and it also has problems with deterring counterattacks. Alaves calculated everything perfectly and gained a draw at the Coliseum Alfonso Perez.
I see Getafe as a small favorite of the upcoming match, but I won’t propose the outcomes. I’ll also take into account that last year’s Betis of Setien (strong Betis) scored Getafe only once in two games. Now Betis has become weaker, and Getafe has not changed much - why would Betis have to score more than one goal in this match?
Prediction for the match: Betis to score under 1.5 goals
