Pinnacle Predictions and Tips for Today’s Football Matches

• It’s now or never for Eibar who sit bottom of La Liga (LL) with three matches left to play. Thankfully for their fans, hope remains as back-to-back wins have brought them back into contention and if results go their way this matchday, victory could push the Basque outfit up to 16th. Both of those recent wins came ‘to nil’, as have five of their six league successes this season, but they’ve never won three in a row in the top-flight without conceding. In fact, they haven’t won three straight LL games of any kind since 2017/18.
• Beating fellow relegation-threatened side Alavés 3-0 last time out at home, Eibar enter this clash reinvigorated and boosted by nine unbeaten home league H2Hs versus Real Betis (W4, D5). The hosts continue to struggle here though, winning just two of 17 league fixtures and failing to score in 52.94% of those.
• Betis arrive in the north of Spain unbeaten in eight LL matches (W2, D6) and making a late dash for European football next season. Sat two points adrift of fifth-placed Real Sociedad ahead of the matchday, Manuel Pellegrini’s men have a fantastic record against bottom-half sides this season (W12, D3, L3) and are favourites for another three points here.
• The visitors have lost just once on their last eight LL trips (W3, D4), despite leading once at HT across that sequence. Scoring a lowly average of 1.12 goals per LL away match, Betis have conceded 55.32% of their total goals on their travels.
• Players to watch: Eibar top scorer Kike García (12) has scored six of his side’s 11 LL home goals this season, including a hat-trick last time out at Ipurua. Betis’ Borja Iglesias has nine LL goals this campaign, four which were game winners after the 78th minute.
• Hot stat: Eibar manager José Luis Mendilibar has lost only one of his nine home H2Hs against Betis (W4, D4).

Kick-off: 19:00 | Prediction: Over 1.5 Goals | Odds: 1.36@Pinnacle