Getafe will look to continue their quest for league survival when they welcome Levante to Coliseum Alfonso Perez on Friday.
Venue: Coliseum Alfonso Perez (Getafe)
Key Statistics
Getafe have the best defensive record in the bottom half of the table (23 goals), which is also the sixth-best in the league.
Only Alaves have scored fewer goals (16) than the hosts in La Liga (17).
Levante have just one win to their name in La Liga so far, at least two less than any other side in the division.
Only 19th-placed Alaves have lost more games (13) than the visiting side (12) this season.
All five of Getafe’s wins this season have come at home while Levante are winless in their travels this term.
Levante have kept a clean sheet in six of their last eight matches against Getafe in all competitions.
Head to head
The two sides have faced off 43 times across all competitions. Levante have won 14 times while Getafe has 12 wins in that period. 17 games have ended in draws.
Latest performances in all competitions
Getafe: D-W-L-W-W
Levante: L-W-L-L-L
Getafe
Getafe will look to continue their resurgence in the league when they welcome Levante to Alfonso Perez on Friday.
The hosts come into this tie on the back of a 0-0 draw with Real Sociedad. The draw followed a 4-2 win over Getafe and sees them sitting in 16th place after 22 games.
Quique Sanchez Flores’s side have been victorious in three of their last five league matches, suffering just one defeat in the process – a 1-0 loss to title-chasing Sevilla.
The Deep Blue Ones, who finished 15th in Spain’s top flight last term, are currently four points clear of the bottom three, meaning that a victory on Friday would open up a healthy gap to the bottom three.
However, there is still plenty of work to do and they’ll see it as vital to beat the bottom-of-the-table Levante—who didn’t win a league game this term until January 8.
Given that they have not conceded 2+ goals against Levante at home since August 2002, they should feel confident of grabbing all three points, especially after netting in five of their last six home LL games (W5, D1).
Possible Getafe starting line-ups
David Soria; Damian Suarez, Stefan Mitrovic, Jorge Cuenca, Miramontes Olivera; Carles Alena, Mauro Arambarri, Nemanja Maksimovic, Florentino ; Enes Unal, Sandro Ramirez.
Injured: Jose Juan Macias, Sabit Abdulai
Doubtful: None
Suspended: None
Levante
Levante will continue their quest for survival when they travel to the South of Madrid.
The visitors, who are in their fifth straight season at this level of football are facing an enormous battle to keep their status in the top flight, having picked up just 11 points this season.
They have won just one league game all season, and have drawn eight and lost 12 of their 21 matches to collect 11 points, leaving them bottom of the table, some nine points from the safety of 17th position.
A 2-0 win over Mallorca two games ago was the first time they took maximum points from a league game this season. But that win followed a 2-0 defeat to Cadiz in their last game before the break.
Alessio Lisci’s side have the worst away record in Spain’s top flight this season, though, picking up just two points from 10 matches, which is certainly a concern heading into this match.
Possible Levante starting line-ups
Aitor Fernandez; Miramon, Ruben Vezo, Sergio Postigo, Carlos Clerc; Enis Bardhi, Mickael Malsa, Gonzalo Melero, Joreg de Frutos; Roberto Soldado, Roger Marti.
Injured: Oscar Duarte and Shkodran Mustafi.
Doubtful: None
Suspended: Jose Luis Morales
Prediction
Getafe 2-1 Levante
