Malaga – Espanyol, predictions, tips, freebet and betting preview!

The 18th stage from La Liga brings us an extremely important match for the second-place`s fight. Today at 22:00 Malaga will receive the visit of Espanyol in a very important math for both teams.

Malaga is on the 19th place in the rankings. The hosts of the match tonight have accumulated 20 points. In the last two stages the players in Malaga have achieved very poor results succeeding in losing the last two matches played. Malaga has a lot of problems on its own field because in a home match ranking it is on the penultimate position. We see that matches played in front of their fans are not an advantage for today’s hosts.

Espanyol will try to take advantage of the weak play of the hosts on their own field. The guests of the match tonight took the 15th position after they managed to accumulate 20 points. In the last two stages Espanyol is in a good shape because they managed to accumulate four points in the last two matches played. In the away matches Espanyol managed to accumulate only one point in the last three matches played.
Players unavailable:
Malaga: Carlos
Espanyol: Lopez
This match is a very important one for both teams because they both want and also have the chance to get important points.

Betting verdict: under 2.5 goals odd is 1.60 – Bet NOW 100% FREE RISK

Espanyol are winless in their last eight away games in La Liga (D4 L4) – the last time they went nine in a row without a win under the same manager was in 2012 under Pochettino (14).
The Parakeets are one of the three teams yet to score from outside the box in La Liga this season, alongside Athletic and surprisingly Barcelona.
11 points after the first 17 games of a La Liga season represents the worst tally for Malaga in their La Liga history. Their previous minimum at this stage of a campaign was 14 points in 2009/10, but they did avoid relegation in that season.
Gerard Moreno has scored six of Espanyol’s last nine goals in La Liga.

Month stats: January
Total picks: 4
Won picks: 1
Lost picks: 1
Awaiting results: 2

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