🏏 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:00 CEST
Levante UD
vs
Sevilla
4-4-2 vs 4-2-3-1
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- Levante sit 18th on five points from six matches, one win, two draws and three defeats, with a goal difference of minus four. Sevilla are fifth on 13 points from seven, four wins and a draw against two losses, chasing fourth-placed Real Madrid on 18. The gap is eight points, but Levante have played two games fewer than most of the division and a home win would move them sharply up the table.
- Levante's season peaked on matchday three, when they beat Real Betis 5-2 at home. Betis now sit third on 19 points, and that single afternoon accounts for five of Levante's eight league goals all season. Since then they have lost 4-2 at home to Barcelona and 3-1 away at Villarreal, a run that captures both their capacity for chaos and their defensive fragility.
- Sevilla have made a habit of narrow wins, edging Valencia 1-0 at home in round five and Deportivo La Coruna 1-0 away in round six. Against the elite they have struggled, losing 3-1 at home to Atletico Madrid and 3-1 at home to Barcelona last time out. Ten goals in seven matches tells the story: this is a side built on protecting slim margins rather than overwhelming opponents.
- The headline reunion involves Levante's number nine, Ivan Romero. The 25-year-old came through Sevilla's academy and moved on permanently after a loan spell at Tenerife. At 172cm he is not an imposing centre-forward, but his instinct in the box and his runs in behind are his calling cards, and tonight he lines up against the club that made him.
- Giorgi Kochorashvili makes the same journey in reverse. The 27-year-old Georgia international rose through Levante's B team and built his career at this club before joining Sporting CP in the summer of 2025, where he made 26 appearances including two in the Champions League. He signed for Sevilla in August 2026 on a contract until 2030 and now returns to his old ground wearing the away shirt.
- Levante's 4-4-2 against Sevilla's 4-2-3-1 sets up an intriguing numbers game in the middle. Sevilla pair Kochorashvili with Lucien Agoume, the 24-year-old Frenchman schooled at Inter after starting out at Sochaux, in a double pivot designed to control the centre. Levante counter with a notably left-footed quartet, including Real Sociedad academy graduate Jon Ander Olasagasti and Oriol Rey, a La Masia product who has also spent time at Leeds United.
- Levante's back four is a patchwork of backgrounds. Jeremy Toljan, the 32-year-old German who has played for Hoffenheim, Borussia Dortmund, Celtic and Sassuolo, takes the right, while Manu Sanchez, an Atletico Madrid academy product with several loan seasons at Osasuna behind him, occupies the left. In the middle, Dela, a Real Madrid youth graduate who came via Villarreal, partners 18-year-old Ifeanyi Ndukwe, previously with Austria Vienna and Liverpool's under-21s.
- Sevilla answer with two 188cm centre-backs. Kike Salas, a left-footed product of the club's own academy, is comfortable starting attacks from deep, alongside Andres Castrin, the Galician who turned professional at CD Lugo before joining in 2024. Gabriel Suazo, the Chile left-back who won the Coupe de France with Toulouse, and Juan Iglesias, who worked his way up to a starting role at Getafe, complete the line.
- Both goalkeepers have well-stamped passports. Levante start 34-year-old Australia international Mat Ryan, whose career has taken in Valencia, Real Sociedad, Brighton, Arsenal, Club Brugge and Lens among others. Sevilla field 32-year-old Greek Odysseas Vlachodimos, a veteran of Stuttgart, Benfica, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle who played Champions League football during his years in Lisbon.
- The benches offer contrasting routes to change the game. Sevilla can introduce Chidera Ejuke, the Nigeria winger who made his name at CSKA Moscow with a famous showing against Barcelona, Switzerland's Ruben Vargas, and 184cm academy striker Isaac Romero. Levante hold back Aissa Mandi, the 34-year-old Algeria centre-back who spent five seasons at Real Betis, and teenage academy forward Paco Cortes, born in 2007.