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Betting tips for Sporting VS Villarreal 14.02.2019

The victory in Santa Maria da Feira allowed to calm the souls in the "kingdom of the lion". The European nights return this Thursday to Alvalade and the opposite side will be a team that is performing a season well below expectations.

Sporting left Braga with a smile from ear to ear after winning the League Cup, but the next three meetings went all the way to the formation led by Marcel Keizer. The leonina team drew a goal in Setúbal with Vitória and lost two straight ahead of Benfica (2-4, 2-1), the first for the NOS League, the second for the Portuguese Cup. At the weekend, the "lions" beat Feiraense to Marcolino de Castro by three balls to one, but the distance to the leader Porto is nine points and only one of the biggest recoveries in history can guide Sporting to the conquest of the title.

In Alvalade there is the awareness that this is a very difficult goal to achieve and the goal is now to reach the final of the Portuguese Cup - the second leg will only be played in April - and go as far as possible in the Europa League. Given the proximity to the weekend's meeting with Sporting Braga (important in the fight for the podium), Keizer may change some parts in his scheme for this meeting with Villarreal, a situation that also occurred in some group games with either Jose Peseiro or Tiago Fernandes or Marcel Keizer himself who has guided the team in the Qarabag defeat in Azerbaijan (1-6) and in the triumph against Vorskla Poltava in Alavalade for three balls to zero.

Despite being scoreless in both games with Arsenal (0-1, 0-0), Sporting was the best attacking group E with 13 goals scored, nine of them already under the guidance of Marcel Keizer.

Jeremy Mathieu is dismissed for this match and Tiago Ilori may be back on the defensive line. Nani also saw being out injured. Miguel Luís and Jovane Cabral are strong candidates to join the eleven.


Europa League "gray" season at El Madrigal, home stage for a "yellow submarine" sunk on the Spanish championship table. The team led by Javier Calleja is in the penultimate place with only 20 points won in 23 games, a surprisingly negative record for a team set up to think about participating in the European events. Indeed, those who look to the European side for the Spanish team can hardly believe the scenario, or we were not talking about a formation that won the Group G with the same ten points as Rapid Vienna and without defeats suffered.

Moreover, the last victory won by Villarreal in the current season, happened precisely in context of the Europa League, against Spartak Moscow (2-0) on 13 December. Since then, there are already 10 (!) Games without knowing the taste of victory, although seven of these challenges have ended tied. Last weekend, Villarreal were drawn to Valladolid by goals. Villarreal have one of the less concrete attacks in Spanish reality and take the same 23 goals scored as the "red torch" Huesca.
 

Sporting VS Villarreal Prediction: X/1 4.80

Sporting VS Villarreal  Betting Tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 2.00

Sporting VS Villarreal  Score Recommendations: 2-1 10.00