Crucial game for Sevillla.

Although they are improving with new coach Sampaoli, just this week achieved a victory against Copenhagen in the Champions League, a victory which gave them a lot of confidence and morale. But in La Liga they are still 16th with just one point advantage with relegation.

So they are forced to win here, because it’s a team who must be fighting for Europe. Apart from this one, they have three games remaining to play till the WC break, and all of them are very difficult: Manchester City, Real Sociedad (4th) and Betis (5th). So this is the only one “winnable”. And if they don't achieve at least 5-7 points in these three games, most probably will be during the WC break in the relegation zone (or very close). So I’m very sure that the team has prepared for this match very well and will play accordingly. It must be won either way.

With Sampaoli we are seeing a better Sevilla, with more confidence upfront and dominating the games. Since his arrival, Sevilla has scored at least one goal in all games (something obvious as well given their quality upfront), so they just need to control the game and avoid conceding chances, as they are trying to do.

On the other hand, Rayo Vallecano is on a quiet position of the league. They are being an irregular team, especially away where in the last 4 achieved just one point. Are a brave team so will play offensive here, which is good for Sevilla as they will have the spaces needed to create chances. The only point here is if Sevilla will be able to keep their goal to nil, because Rayo will try to attack.

For this fixture coach Iraola has some key players out due to injury: best player and key midfielder Trejo (suspended), his replacement Nketa (suspended) as well as the third option for this position - Pozo. Also key striker Falcao is injured.

Furthermore, they are coming from a huge victory 5:1 against Cadiz (due to a red card to guests as well). When a small team like Rayo achieved this kind of score, we use to see a bit of “relaxation” and a worse performance in their next game, as I’m expecting today.

So we have hosts with much more necessity of points, more motivation, much better squad and the home advantage. Sevilla must win this match if they don't wanna be in trouble.

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对塞维利亚至关重要的比赛。

尽管他们在新教练桑保利的带领下正在进步，但就在本周，他们在欧冠联赛中战胜了哥本哈根，这场胜利给了他们很大的信心和士气。但在西甲联赛中，他们仍排在第16位，仅以1分的优势保级。

所以他们必须在这里取胜，因为这是一支必须为欧洲而战的球队。除了这场比赛，他们还有三场比赛要打，而且都非常艰难:曼城、皇家社会(第4)和贝蒂斯(第5)。所以这是唯一一个“能赢的”。如果他们不能在这三场比赛中获得至少5-7分，那么他们很可能会在WC休息期间处于降级区(或非常接近)。所以我非常肯定球队已经为这场比赛做了很好的准备，并且会踢得很好。无论如何都必须赢得胜利。

有了桑保利，我们看到塞维利亚变得更好了，他们更有信心，也更能统治比赛。自从他到来后，塞维利亚在所有的比赛中至少进了一个球(考虑到他们的前场水平，这一点也很明显)，所以他们只需要控制比赛，避免失去机会，就像他们正在努力做的那样。

另一方面，巴列卡诺在联赛中处于安静的位置。他们是一支不规律的球队，特别是在过去4个赛季只拿到1分的客场。塞维利亚是一支勇敢的球队，所以他们会在这里进攻，这对塞维利亚来说是好事，因为他们有创造机会所需的空间。唯一的问题是塞维利亚能否保持进球为零，因为拉约会尝试进攻。

在这场比赛中，伊拉拉有一些关键球员因伤缺阵:最佳球员和关键中场特雷霍(停赛)，他的替补恩凯塔(停赛)，以及这个位置的第三个选择——波佐。主力前锋法尔考也受伤了。

此外，他们刚刚5:1大胜加的斯(因为客队也吃了红牌)。当像Rayo这样的小团队获得这样的分数时，我们通常会看到他们在下一款游戏中出现一些“放松”和更糟糕的表现，这也是我今天所期待的。

所以我们的东道主需要更多的积分，更多的动力，更好的阵容和主场优势。塞维利亚必须赢得这场比赛，如果他们不想惹麻烦的话。