Bottom three club Granada CF (2-13-7, 13 points) and lowly team Real Betis (6-9-6, 24 points) are set to face one another at the Los Cármenes Stadium on Friday, Feb. 17 as round 23 of the 2016-2017 La Liga season commences.
Start Time and Streaming Info
The game starts at 2:45 p.m. ET. It can be viewed live online thru FuboTV.
Granada has continued to struggle this season being winless in seven of their last eight games. The team is settled in the 19th spot of the 20-team Italian top flight table, only three ahead of bottom-dwellers CA Osasuna and three points behind 18th-place squad Sporting Gijon.
El Grana is coming off a crushing 0-4 defeat at the hands of contending team Eibar on the road at the Ipurua Municipal Stadium on Monday, Marca reported.
Head coach Lucas Alcaraz's squad just snapped a six-game winless slide with a 1-0 home win over Las Palmas in the previous round before getting demolished by Eibar in a shutout loss.
Adrian Gonzalez, Sergi Enrich, Ivan Ramis, and Pedro Leon scored one goal apiece in the 11th, 39th, 52nd, and 62nd minutes respectively for Los Armeros.
Meanwhile, Real Betis has drawn their last three games and is on a four-game winless streak to drop to the 13th spot of the league table. They are now eight points above the bottom three relegation area and 12 points below the second and final Europa League qualifying berth for next season currently held by sixth-running team Villarreal.
In their most recent La Liga fixture last Saturday, Los Verdiblancos were held to a 0-0 draw by reeling squad Valencia at their own home ground of Benito Villamarín Stadium, as per ESPN.
It was a drop in form for head coach Víctor Sánchez's side after they forced defending champions Barcelona to a 1-1 tie in the previous round.
The draw was the third clean sheet in five games for goalkeeper Antonio Adan. The team has allowed only two goals in their last five outings.
Prediction and Predicted Lineup
The predicted result is a 2-0 win by Real Betis.
Granada starting lineup (5-3-2 formation): Ochoa; Foulquier, Lomban, Ingason, Silva, Cuenca; Malle, Agbo, Pereira; Kravets, Ramos
Real Betis starting lineup (5-3-2 formation): Adan; Piccinini, Mandi, Pezzella, Tosca, Durmisi; dos Santos, Pardo, Ceballos; Alegria, Castro