- 1 Real Betis vs Feyenoord: two 3-2 comebacks for the hosts, nine goals in three games for the Eredivisie leaders
- 2 Real Betis: ten scored and nine conceded in three games, and an Isco penalty that settled Porto
- 3 Feyenoord: five wins in a row, but five goals conceded in their last two matches
- 4 Free Champions League Prediction: Real Betis vs Feyenoord
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Real Betis vs Feyenoord: two 3-2 comebacks for the hosts, nine goals in three games for the Eredivisie leaders 
Real Betis and Feyenoord have met once before, in the Europa League league phase on 29 January this year, and Betis won 2-1. Nine months later the setting has moved up a level, to the Champions League and the Estadio de La Cartuja in Seville, the Betis home ground this season. Kick-off is 20:00 UK time on Wednesday.
Both clubs come in with something to protect and something to fix. Betis are ninth in the league phase with six points, having won both games 3-2 after falling behind. They also lost 5-2 to Barcelona at La Cartuja on Saturday, a game in which Facundo Bernal was sent off for a challenge on Lamine Yamal.
Feyenoord are top of the Eredivisie, four points clear of PSV and AZ, and have won five games in a row in all competitions. Their European campaign started badly, with a 5-1 defeat at Barcelona, but they recovered to beat Como 3-2 at De Kuip last Wednesday, and they’re 23rd in the league phase with three points.
What links the two sides this autumn is goals at both ends. Betis have conceded nine in their last three matches across all competitions while scoring ten. Feyenoord have scored seven and conceded five in their last two alone, and Giovanni van Bronckhorst called Saturday’s 4-3 win at Telstar “the weakest game of the season”.
The bookmakers have Betis as favourites at around 1.56 to 1.58, with Feyenoord available at 5.75 or longer. Manuel Pellegrini’s side have home advantage and the stronger Champions League start, but neither defence has given much reason to trust it.
I’d look past the result, because with both attacks in form and both back lines leaking, the question isn’t so much who wins at La Cartuja as whether either goalkeeper gets through 90 minutes without picking the ball out of the net.
Real Betis: ten scored and nine conceded in three games, and an Isco penalty that settled Porto 
Betis’s Champions League wins have followed the same script. At Lille on matchday one they were 2-1 down after 37 minutes before Marc Bartra scored twice either side of half-time and Parrott added a third. Lille’s Ethan Mbappe was sent off three minutes later, and Betis held on for a 3-2 win.
Against Porto last week, Abde Ezzalzouli opened the scoring two minutes after the restart, Porto went ahead through a Gabri Veiga free kick and Samu Aghehowa, and Betis came back again. Cucho Hernandez equalised on 74 minutes and Isco won it from the penalty spot on 84, after a VAR review, in the club’s first Champions League home game since 2005.
The same openness showed up against Barcelona on Saturday. Valentin Gomez and Abde scored for Betis, but Barcelona scored five, through Yamal, Rodri, Gabriel Jesus, Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo. Before that, Betis had beaten Osasuna 5-2, so they’ve now conceded at least twice in three straight games.
Betis are still third in La Liga with 19 points from nine matches, and they’d won four home games in a row across La Liga and Europe before Barcelona arrived. Bernal’s red card was in the league, so he’s available here.
Junior Firpo and Aitor Ruibal are out. Pellegrini is expected to bring Bartra and Natan back into the centre of defence, with Isco, who has created seven chances in two Champions League games, behind Parrott. Antony and Abde should start in the wide positions.
Parrott is priced around 1.96 to score at any time, the shortest of the Betis forwards, and he scored at Lille. Abde has scored in each of the last two games and Cucho Hernandez scored against Porto, which gives Pellegrini options if the first plan doesn’t work.
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Feyenoord: five wins in a row, but five goals conceded in their last two matches 
Feyenoord’s win at Telstar on Saturday started after 25 seconds, when Diarra scored, and ended 4-3. Nacho Ferri scored his sixth league goal of the season on 21 minutes, Sem Steijn added two, one from the penalty spot, and Telstar kept coming back.
The Como game four days earlier had been more convincing. Assane Diao gave Como the lead, Gjivai Zechiel equalised from distance within two minutes, and Anis Hadj Moussa scored twice in the second half to make it 3-1 before Como pulled one back in stoppage time. Hadj Moussa then created six chances at Telstar.
Before those two games, Feyenoord had beaten AZ 2-0, Utrecht 5-0 and PEC Zwolle 7-0, which describes a defence that is solid in the Eredivisie and much less so against teams that commit numbers forward. Barcelona scored five against them in September, and Como and Telstar have now scored five between them.
Jordan Bos, Gijs Smal, Bart Nieuwkoop, Thomas Beelen and Reiss Nelson are all out, which leaves Van Bronckhorst short at full-back in particular. Luciano Valente went off at half-time against Como with hamstring discomfort, but the coach says he’s available.
Jeremiah St. Juste and Targhalline were also withdrawn at half-time against Como as a precaution and started on the bench at Telstar, so both should be fresher for Seville. The expected shape is a 4-3-3 with Ferri through the middle and Valente and Hadj Moussa either side of him.
Feyenoord averaged 3.5 goals per game over their last six before the weekend, and Steijn has three goals across the Barcelona and Telstar games. Going into the Telstar game they had scored 27 league goals in eight matches and conceded seven.
Probable lineup Real Betis: Valles; Bellerin, Bartra, Natan, Fran Garcia; Fornals, Roca, Isco; Abde, Antony, Parrott
Probable lineup Feyenoord: Ernst; Read, St. Juste, Marmol, Javi Lopez; Vanhoutte, Zechiel, Targhalline; Valente, Hadj Moussa, Ferri
Free Champions League Prediction: Real Betis vs Feyenoord
Our prediction: Both teams to score @ 1.50
Betis have conceded at least twice in each of their last three games, and Feyenoord have scored in both of their Champions League matches, including at Barcelona, and four times at Telstar on Saturday. At the other end, Feyenoord have conceded five goals in their last two matches, and Betis have scored ten in their last three.
The one thing that could stop goals at both ends is Betis going ahead and sitting deep, as they did after Mbappe’s red card at Lille. With Feyenoord’s front three in this form, a Betis clean sheet would be the surprise of the night.
I’d lean towards a Betis win, perhaps 3-1 or 2-1, but the result matters less than the pattern. Both teams to score at 1.50 is the pick.
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