In this 9th week match, on Saturday Oct 15th, Mallorca plays host to Sevilla in a meeting of these two La Liga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, a perfect day for football. 12th placed Mallorca is fresh off their 1-1 draw against Elche. Ezequiel Ponce struck first for Elche in the 15th minute, then Vedat Muriqi tied it up for Mallorca in the 71st minute earning Mallorca a comeback draw. Mallorca is looking for direction having 2 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Sevilla recorded a 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund. Nianzou Kouassi scored the first goal for Sevilla in the 18th minute, then Jude Bellingham tied it up for Borussia Dortmund in the 35th minute on a feed from Thomas Meunier squeezing out at least the one point for Borussia Dortmund. Sevilla looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 7 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 2 draws apiece.
Sevilla’s most prolific scorer has been Óliver Torres. The Spanish midfielder has netted two goals over the last 5 matches. Vedat Muriqi has been the most prolific scorer on Mallorca in his last five matches with 2 goals
Amath Ndiaye, Rodrigo Battaglia, Tino Kadewere and Dominik Greif are unavailable to play for Mallorca, while Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya’s Sevilla squad will be without Jesús Corona, Marcão Teixeira, Fernando and Karim Rekik.