Sevilla take on the visitors Standard Liege at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium in the Round 1 of the UEFA Europa League Group J. The match will be played in the eponymous city Seville on Thursday, September 20th.
Sevilla failed in their last two matches and could not score a single goal. However, when the team was going through the Europa League qualification rounds there was no doubt of them failing. In the second qualification round Los Hispalenses beat Ujpest from Hungary (4-0, 3-1). In the third qualification round they went through Zalgiris (1-0, 5-0). In the qualification play-offs the team of Pablo Martin beat Sigma Olomouc (1-0, 3-0). Overall, Los Rojiblancos often show confident performances in front of their home crowd and get positive results. In their last three matches Sevilla lost to Getafe with a 0-2 score, to Real Betis with a 0-1 score and beat Sigma Olomouc with a 3-0 score.
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Standard Liege have been showing good performances and scoring lots of goals in the start of the new Belgian First Division A season. However, Les Rouges often play weak on the away fields even though they score a lot. In their last away fixture the team of Michel Preud`homme lost to Eupen with a 1-2 score. They probably did not achieve the teamwork by that time. However, they are likely to be fully prepared for their first round fixture against Sevilla. In their last three matches Standard Liege drew against Charleroi with a 0-0 score, beat Sittard with a 4-1 score and lost to Eupen with a 1-2 score.
Sevilla and Standard Liege have had three Europa League fixtures between them in history. The last two happened in 2014 when Los Hispalenses beat Les Rouges with a 3-1 score on their home field and drew against them with a 0-0 score on the away field. Now the team of Pablo Martin is the clear favourite in the lead-up to the upcoming match, they should get the three points confidently on Thursday.
Prediction for the match: Sevilla to win with -1.0 handicap.
