Eibar manager Jose Luis Mendilibar. (Photo : Getty Images)
Lowly squad Valencia CF (5-10-4, 19 points) will try to get back to winning form as they meet middling club SD Eibar (8-7-5, 29 points) in a 2016-2017 La Liga season match on Feb. 4, Saturday at the Mestalla Stadium.
Start Time and Streaming Info
The game starts at 2:45 p.m. ET. It can be viewed live online thru FuboTV.
Valencia has been winless in four of their last six matches. However, their two wins were enough for them to climb two spots up to 15th place in the league table, six points above the bottom three relegation area.
A 10-man Los Che squad snapped a two-game winning run after losing to another middling side, UD Las Palmas, 1-3, on the road at the Gran Canaria Stadium on Monday, as per Sports Mole.
Spanish striker Santi Mina netted the opening goal of the match for head coach Voro González's team in the 21st minute with a right-footed shot from the center of the box off an assist by defender Jose Luis Gaya.
However, it would be the lone goal of Valencia in the match as Los Amarillos scored the next three goals, courtesy of Jonathan Viera, Mauricio Lemos, and Kevin-Prince Boateng in the 42nd, 57th, and 61st minutes respectively.
Barcelona loanee Munir El Haddadi was sent off in the 51st minute after a hard foul on defender Pedro Bigas, which gave them a huge disadvantage.
Meanwhile, Eibar won for the second time in their last three games after a 3-1 rout of Deportivo La Coruna last Saturday at their home ground of Ipurua Municipal Stadium, via Sporting Life.
Spanish midfielder Adrian Gonzalez opened the scoring in the fourth minute of the match with a right-footer from the left side of the box with the assist coming from Sergi Enrich.
Enrich then doubled the lead 11 minutes later as Gonzalez returned the favor with a cross following a corner kick.
Deportivo was able to make it a 2-1 count in the 19th minute with a goal by Turkish midfielder Emre Colak, but head coach Jose Luis Mendilibar's boys sealed the win with a 72nd-minute strike by French defender Florian Lejeune.
Prediction and Predicted Lineup
The predicted result is a 1-0 win by Eibar.
Valencia starting lineup (4-3-3 formation): Alves; Cancelo, Garay, Mangala, Gaya; Soler, Perez, Parejo; Zaza, Mina, Nani
Eibar starting lineup (4-2-3-1 formation): Yoel; Capa, Galvez, Lejeune, Luna; Rivera, Carrillo; Leon, Gonzalez, Inui; Enrich
