Betis vs Las Palmas prediction: SPAIN: LaLiga betting tips on match 2023-11-25 20:00.
While some of his compatriots at home have been calling for him to take the vacant managerial post for the Chile national team, Manuel Pellegrini is keeping busy plotting Real Betis’ hopeful ascent into the European placings. An eight-match unbeaten run (W3, D5) in La Liga (LL) is usually nothing to complain about, but their fans have been left wanting more after conceding equalisers in four consecutive 1-1 LL away draws, meaning Los Verdiblancos sit seventh coming into this latest round.
While Pellegrini figures out how to get his players to hold a lead on the road, it’s been a much more pleasant picture at home, where Betis welcome Las Palmas having won six their last seven competitive home games (D1), with their attack netting 2+ goals in each of the last five such encounters. They have slipped up only once as home favourites at Estadio Benito VillamarĂn this LL season (1-1 v Cádiz), forming part of an impressive 71% win rate in such matches since the start of 2020-21.
It would be naive to discount Las Palmas given they’re one of the two clubs in Europe’s traditional top-five leagues to have collected four league triumphs as outsiders this term. Las Palmas spent the international break sat in eighth in LL, just three points behind Betis, with head coach GarcĂa Pimienta shortlisted for November’s manager of the month following an eye-catching 2-1 win over AtlĂ©tico Madrid and a 1-1 draw at Osasuna.
There’s still a long way to go, as they’ll remember from their 2016/17 season when finishing 14th despite having collected even more points at the same stage of that campaign (19) than they have now (18). But with seven points earned from their last three LL matches on their travels (W2, D1), thanks mostly to a combination of three first-half clean sheets and three opening goals, there’s nothing to suggest their fantastic start is slowing down yet.
Players to watch: Ayoze Pérez will be one man hoping that the international break hasn’t halted their momentum after goal contributions in all but one of his last six competitive appearances (G4, A1). One of Las Palmas’ five away LL goalscorers is Munir El Haddadi, who found the net in his last personal meeting with Betis back in 2021/22.
Hot stat: 83% of LL goals in Las Palmas’ games this season have come after half-time.