Zaragoza – Sevilla FC B Prediction & Picks (25.03.2018)

Real Zaragoza and Sevilla II meet at the Estadio de la Romareda, in a match for the 32nd round of the Second Division. In the last direct match for this edition of the league, on 21-10-2017, the two teams tied (2-2). The record of direct confrontations of the last 3 years is favorable to the visiting team, which in the last 3 matches won 2 and tied 1. The home / away condition deserves particular attention, since despite this being a match between 7th and 22nd of the table of the league, in fact it is a confrontation between the 12th classified in home matches and the 21st as a visitor.

Real Zaragoza:

The home team is currently in the 7 th position of the league, with 49 points won, after 13 wins, 10 draws and 8 losses. In the penultimate match, they won in a home match against Lorca, by (3-1). In the last match, they won in an away match against Osasuna, by (1-2). This is a team little affected by the house factor, since it conquered similar results at home and abroad. In the last 10 home league matches Real Zaragoza has a record of 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, so they have won 21 points out of 30 possible.

For this competition, record a sequence of 5 wins in their last home games. In their home league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 1-0 (6 out of 15 matches). Their offense has scored regularly, since they have scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their home matches for this competition there is a tendency for few goals, since 11 of the last 15 matches have ended with less than 3 goals. In 31 matches in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 10 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 15 home matches for this competition there is 1 period that stands out: they have conceded 4 of their 11 goals between minutes (46′-60 ‘).

The Zaragoza is in the fight to rise division and knows that at this time has no margin for negative results at home, so it goes in search of victory from the initial whistle. Against the worst team in the championship it is practically mandatory to win and in his stadium only the three points interest him, thus, he will try to control the game so as not to run the risk of being surprised. For this meeting the technician Natxo González will not be able to count on Javi Ros, the one that is in the medical department.

Sevilla II:

The away team is currently in the 22 th position of the league, with 16 points won, after 2 wins, 10 draws and 19 losses. In the penultimate match, they lost in an away match against Cádiz, by (4-1). In the last match, they lost in a home match against Albacete, by (1-2). This is a team little affected by the house factor, since it conquered similar results at home and abroad. For the league, Sevilla II won 5 points out of 30 possible points, after 1 win, 2 draws and 7 losses in the last 10 home matches.

In this competition, they have a sequence of 7 losses in the last away matches and they have not won any of the last 8 away matches. In their away league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 0-0 (7 out of 16 matches). They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered at least one goal in each of the last 10 matches, and their offense has not been very effective, as they have not scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. This is a team that scores only few times and was only able to open the scoring in 6 of its last 31 games for the Second Division, of these 6 came to rest in advantage in 3 and won at the end of the 90 ‘in 1. In 31 matches in this competition, he only managed 1 comeback in the 21 matches in which he suffered the first goal. There is 1 period that stands out in the last 15 away matches for this competition: they have suffered 11 of their 27 goals between minutes (76’-90 ‘).

As the days go by, things become more and more complicated for Sevilla II, as they see opponents gain more and more advantage and fail to show strength to recover. At this moment the visiting team is in the relegation zone and needs to improve a lot if it wants to achieve victories, so if it continues in this way, it is likely that it will continue to have poor results and that it will not avoid the relegation to the third division. For this challenge the technician Luis Tevenet will not be able to count on José Lara and José Amo, those who are injured, with Alejandro Pozoe Juan Berrocal, those who are at the service of their respective teams, or with Mariano Konyk, who will serve a suspension.