Sevilla vs Rayo Vallecano prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2022-10-28 16:30.
Tumultuous times for Sevilla, who after beating Copenhagen 3-0 on Tuesday to keep their UEFA Champions League knockout dreams alive, witnessed Borussia Dortmund secure a 0-0 draw just hours later to ensure the Andalusianâs European exploits during Spring will be in UEFAâs second tier competition. Perhaps aware of his sideâs impending fate after that victory, Sevillaâs midfielder Isco stated that âThese days itâs hard to win without sufferingâ.
Their labour was not in vain however, as Sevilla ended a seven-match winless streak at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium, which will have relieved returning manager Jorge Sampaoli. The Argentine, who took charge of the side earlier this month, still has plenty of work to do as his team are winless from five La Liga (LL) openers at home for only the second time ever, having last failed to do that back in 1996/97.
Thatâs resulted in Rayo Vallecano (tenth) sitting above the Sevillistas (16th) after 11 games played for the first time since 2012/13. Arriving fresh off the back of an emphatic 5-1 win over CĂĄdiz, their joint-third biggest top-flight margin of victory, a monumental task now awaits as they prepare to face a side against whom theyâve gone 13 consecutive H2Hs without a win (D3, L10) in a run that also stretches back to 2012.
Now might be the time to right those wrongs, as that victory over CĂĄdiz was the first time theyâve scored five in a LL contest since, you guessed it, 2012 (6-0 Osasuna)! And despite a four-game winless away run (D1, L3) threatening to bring Andoni Iraolaâs men back down to earth, Vallecano did hold LL juggernauts AtlĂ©tico Madrid to a 1-1 draw in their last away outing, making this a truly unpredictable matchup!
Key battle: Isco scored his first goal for Sevilla in midweek, and he now prepares to face Vallecano âkeeper Stole Dimitrievski, with the Sevilla midfielder grabbing an assist in a Spanish victory over Macedonia (2-1) on the only other occasion these players met.
Hot streak: Vallecano have scored exactly one second-half goal in each of their last five LL away trips.