Primera Liga: Malaga vs Sevilla preview

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August 20th, 2015
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The first match of the new La Liga season takes place on Friday at La Rosaleda where Malaga play host to Europa League winners Sevilla. The visitors finished fifth last season and they are hoping for a better spot this year while Malaga are looking to earn their return to European football. The two teams have met on the final day of last season and Sevilla secured a 3-2 win. They have also won the reverse fixture 2-0 with goals from Carlos Bacca and Denis Suarez.

Malaga finished ninth last season and earned a surprising 1-0 victory over Barcelona at Camp Nou in February. A few key players have left the club this summer, including Juanmi, Samuel, Samu Castillejo, Francisco Portillo and Sergio Sanchez. The club have bought some decent names though during the summer transfer window, like Duje Cop, Adnane Tighadouini and Nordin Amrabat.Brazilian defender Weligton is suspended while Flavio Ferreira, Ignacio Camacho and Recio could miss out through injury.

Sevilla are expected to challenge for a Champions League spot this season after having won two consecutive Europa League titles. They missed out on the fourth spot last season but they earned qualification to the Champions League after beating Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Europa League final. Their season started with a spectacular 5-4 extra time defeat at the hands of Barcelona in the UEFA Super Cup. They have signed quite a few players this summer: Adil Rami and Mariano in defence, Steven N'Zonzi and Michael Krohn-Dehli in midfield plus Ciro Immobile and Yevhen Konoplyanka in attack. They did lose their star striker though as Carlos Bacca moved to AC Milan.

Probable line-ups:

Malaga: Kameni - Boka, Angeleri, Torres, Rosales - Filipenko, Amrabat, Guerra, Tighadouini - Cop, Horta

Sevilla: Beto - Coke, Rami, N'Zonzi, Tremoulinas - Krohn-Dehli, Iborra, Vitolo, Banega, Reyes - Gameiro

My prediction: Sevilla to win 3-2.

Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:

Malaga win - 3.30 Draw - 3.30 Sevilla win - 2.25

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