Huesca - Espanyol Football prediction

Huesca and Espanyol face each other at Estadio El Alcoraz in a 9th round match of the Primera Division. These two teams have never played before, so this will be their first direct showdown. Although this is a game between the 20th and 5th of the overall ranking, it is actually a game between the 18th place in home games and the 19th as a visitor.

Analysis of Huesca
The home team is currently in 20th place with 5 points earned, after 1 win, 2 draws and 5 losses. In the penultimate match, they tied at home to Girona by (1-1). In the last match, lost out to Valladolid by (1-0). This is a team that normally achieves more positive results as a visitor than at home, having won 4 away, scoring 6 goals and conceding 15, and 1 point in their stadium with 1 goal scored and 3 conceded. In the last 10 home games Huesca has won 4, 2 draws and 4 losses. The team has not been very strong defensively, as it has always suffered goals in the last 8 games that played in this competition. This is a team that scored few times first and only managed to open the scoring in 2 of their last 8 games for the Primera Division, of those 2 reached the interval in advantage in 1 and won in the late 90 'in 1. In 8 games in the competition, never managed to turn the scoring in the 6 games in which he suffered the first goal.

Huesca has a disastrous campaign in La Liga, has not won 7 games since losing 5 and drew 2 and needs an urgent recovery to try to leave the national lantern. The team has a low quality attack that has scored only 7 goals, being the fifth worst of the competition, but the big problem has been the defense that suffered 18 goals and is the most leaked, so much that suffered goals in the 8 rounds that played here . Playing at home, like the match on Sunday, Huesca have accumulated 2 losses and 1 draw in the last 3 games and the most worrying is that they scored only 1 goal in these 3 games, being a team that creates little against their fans, technical inefficiency of its athletes. For the clash with Espanyol, coach Leonardo Franco will not be able to count on Sastre midfielder on account of injury.

Analysis of Espanyol
After 4 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, the visiting team is in 5th place, having won 14 points. In the last match, they beat Villarreal at home (3-1), after their previous match drew away in a game against Rayo Vallecano (2-2). This is a team affected by the home factor, having won 2 points as a visitor and 12 in their stadium, with 7 goals scored and 1 goal conceded at home, against 4 goals scored and 6 suffered as a visitor. In the last 4 away games for the league, Espanyol has 2 draws and 2 defeats, having won 2 points in 12 chances.

For this competition, you have not won any of the last 4 games outside of your stadium. His attack has scored regularly, as he has managed to achieve in 7 of the last 8 games in this competition. This is a team that often scores first: opened the scoring in 6 of their last 8 games for the Primera Division, of those 6 reached the break in lead in 2 and managed to maintain the lead until the end of the 90 'in 4. In the past 5 games away for all competitions for the first time: 4 of his 6 goals in between the minutes (46'-60 ').

Espanyol, unlike their next opponents, makes a good campaign in La Liga, comes from a good sequence of results with only 1 setback in the last 5 rounds and goes in search of 3 more points to remain among the first places of the national, having only 2 points to the leader Sevilla. The team has a good balance between the offensive and defensive sectors, having scored 11 goals, being the seventh best attack of the competition, and conceded 7 goals, having the fourth defense less leaked, although it has dropped a bit of income in this sector in its recent matches. Acting outside the home, such as this Sunday's match, Espanyol have 2 draws and 2 losses, needing to improve in this type of situation, as it ends up leaving many spaces behind and because of that suffered goals in the 4 matches that made away from their dominions. For the game against Huesca, coach Rubí has ​​no problems in the team considered holder and must repeat the lineup of the last round where he won a great victory over Villarreal in the best performance in La Liga so far.