Betis wants to crown its great week in Zorrilla

Real Sociedad and Villarreal face each other for Europe and Cádiz seeks to get out of relegation against Espanyol

MADRID, 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Real Betis, spurred on by their vital victory in Rome, seeks to defend their 'Champions' place this Sunday at Real Valladolid (2:00 p.m.), on the eighth day of LaLiga Santander in which Real Sociedad and Villarreal face each other to enter European zone (6:30 p.m.) and in which Cádiz is eager to get out of the relegation places at the cost of getting RCD Espanyol into trouble (4:15 p.m.).

Manuel Pellegrini's men, with goals from Guido Rodríguez and Luiz Henrique, stormed the Olympic stadium in the Italian capital to lead Group C of the Europa League with plenty of victories. Now, they will try to take advantage of that euphoria to forget the defeat in the last league game against Celta (1-0), which interrupted a streak of four consecutive wins in all competitions.

In the domestic championship, the Verdiblanco team is fourth with 15 points, four behind the lead and two ahead of the first contenders to take the place. The bad news of the continental duel has been the relapse of Nabil Fekir, who will miss this Sunday's match along with the injured Juanmi and Víctor Camarasa and the suspended Luiz Felipe.

Opposite, the pucelanos want to confirm the reaction seen in Getafe (2-3), where they left behind the two defeats of the previous days, to continue distancing themselves from the burning zone, three units below their seven.

Once again, Pacheta will have to deal with a full infirmary due to injuries to Luis Pérez, Jawad El Yamiq, Kenedy, Anuar and Sergio Asenjo. In addition, Gonzalo Plata is doubtful due to an overload, while Joaquín Fernández has overcome his discomfort and will be available.

At the Reale Arena, Real Sociedad aspires to achieve its third victory in a row in LaLiga to enter the European zone, a goal that is also desired by its rival, Villarreal, who lost ground in that regard after adding only one point from the last nine possible.

The people from San Sebastian, seventh with seven points -the same ones that mark the fifth and sixth places-, beat Espanyol (2-1) and Girona (3-5) in their last league matches, and this week they established themselves as leaders of group in the Europa League by beating Sheriff (0-2).

The 'Yellow Submarine', meanwhile, thrashed Austria Vienna (5-0) in the Conference League and calmed the nerves that arose after not winning in the last three LaLiga dates - with a defeat against Betis (1-0 ) and two draws against Sevilla (1-1) and Cádiz (0-0)-. With 12 points, Unai Emery's men are only one behind Europe.

Martín Merquelanz, Igor Zubeldia, Ander Barrenetxea, Mikel Oyarzabal, Umar Sadiq and Ander Martín will miss the appointment for the 'txuri urdin' team, who have doubts about Mohamed-Ali Cho, Andoni Gorosabel and Robin Le Normand. The away team, without Gerard Moreno or Juan Foyth, will be watching Pepe Reina and Manu Trigueros until the last moment.

Finally, Cádiz will seek to score points for the third consecutive day to try to get out of relegation against Espanyol that has gone three games without a win. The yellow team, who had lost the first five league games, opened their victories against Valladolid (0-1) before the break and returned with a draw against Villarreal (1-1), and is now penultimate (4) to only one point of the zone of permanence.

The parakeet team (5) has only added one point out of the last nine at stake -against Sevilla (2-3), Real Sociedad (2-1) and Valencia (2-2)- and needs to react to avoid being involved in problems .

Sergio González will not have Garrido due to injury, Iza due to suspension and Alarcón and Momo due to technical decision, while Diego Martínez will have the casualties of the suspended Martin Braithwaite and the injured Adrià Pedrosa and Rubén Sánchez, in addition to the doubts of Óscar Gil, Fernando Calero and Jose Carlos Lazo.

Real Valladolid - Real Betis. From Cerro Grande (C. Madrid) 14.00.

Cadiz - Spanish. Hernández Hernández (C.Canario) 16.15.

Royal Society - Villarreal. Soto Grado (C.Riojano) 18.30.

FC Barcelona - Vigo Celtic. Munuera Montero (C.Andaluz)