Real Murcia v Espanyol. The Barcelona based club have a great away record, and are quite high in the standings either. It's somehow believed they are good on the road, and they are, but not against sides like Murcia. Why? As you can notice from their games most of their points on the road were collected against big clubs, where they played as underdogs and their counter-attacking tactic worked well. That's not going to work against Murcia. It's alot of pressure on Clemente who will likely prefer a defensive-minded tactic, and Tamudo and his teammates will surely be lacking spaces and ideas up front.



Espanyol beat Mallorca last round at home in what I call the most lucky win in history. Not going to describe now how things exactly went, but it's well-known they did not deserve to win, even a draw wouldn't have been fair. This team has more problems in defence many think, they are not as good as they sued to be in the first half of the season.



Murcia instead have lost at home to Getafe 0-3 their first match under Clemente, and I must say they shouldn't have lost. In spite of the tragical scoreline they were still the slightly better side in my view, the reason why they didn't score stands only in Getafe's GK who's saved everything, otherwise the score could have been different. They didn't look so bad away against Rercre either, not until they got a red card at least. Pablo Garcia (mid/reg), David De Coz (def/reg), Cesar Arzo (def/reg) are out, but Murcia are not the kind of team who depends too much on certain players, the play as a team and I think that's what will matter most against Espanyol.



"We are a long way adrift and we need to win six of the last ten games, but we will keep fighting,'' Clemente said.



Pick : HOME
Odds : 2.07
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : Pinnacle
Date : 2008-03-23
Match Result : 4-0
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