Week 18 brings us a match on Jan 21st, where Sevilla will play host to Cádiz in a meeting of these two evenly matched La Liga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, which is great football weather. Sevilla is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Deportivo Alavés. Ivan Rakitić scored the first goal for Sevilla in the 48th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Deportivo Alavés couldn’t manage to score, and Sevilla took the shutout win. Sevilla looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 10 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Cádiz recorded a 1-1 draw against Elche. Brian Ocampo struck first for Cádiz in the 7th minute, then Ezequiel Ponce got the equalizer for Elche in the 81st minute on a feed from Lautaro Emanuel Blanco earning Elche at least a draw. Cádiz is looking for direction having 2 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Sevilla won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
Cádiz is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Lucas Pérez and Rubén Alcaraz each having 2 goals in their last 5. Youssef En-Nesyri has been the most prolific scorer on Sevilla in his last five matches with three goals
Jesús Corona, Marcão Teixeira and Karim Rekik are unavailable to play for Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya’s team, while Zaldúa, Martin-Bejarano Serrano, Juan Torres Ruiz, Víctor Chust and David Gil Mohedano are unavailable to play for Cádiz.