Real Madrid v Levante Betting Tips [12 May 2022]

Real Madrid will be the last to take to the field in the 36th round action in La Liga when they host Levante. Real Madrid are top of the standings with 81 points while Levante come into this game with 29 points, in 19th place. The hosts have already been declared champions, and going into this game they have nothing to play for. They are coming from a 1-0 loss to arch rivals Atletico Madrid in another league game that had so little meaning for the champions. For now, Real Madrid are preparing for the Champions League final where they are supposed to face Premier League side Liverpool. With this in mind, and just as it were in the Atletico game, Real Madrid are expected to rest key players. Karim Benzema and Thibaut Courtois were among players rested for the Atletico game as Real failed to score for the first time in 10 matches. This is their second-last home game of the season and in the last five in La Liga, they’ve won four.

By the time Levante comes into this game, they could be at a worse position in the standings and as far as the relegation battle is concerned. Bottom placed Alaves will play a day earlier and could leapfrog Levante, while the teams above them could also open up a bigger gap. It leaves this as a must-win game for Levante, but having lost just once in the last four meetings with Real Madrid, they couldn’t have wished for a better time to face the champions. Levante have two wins in four meetings with Real Madrid and are unbeaten in the last two. They have an impressive scoring run too; in the last 13 matches, Levante have managed to score, though they get into this game without a clean sheet in the last five games. Away from home, Levante have just one clean sheet in 21 La Liga games and they have just two wins in this period.

Levante have had a poor season but here they have a reason to be optimistic. They’ve suffered just one loss against Real Madrid in the last four matches and won two of those. They will have the advantage of playing a weakened Real Madrid side, and the only thing perhaps to worry about is playing Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu. Both teams have good scoring runs ahead of this game, while defensively they’ve been a bit shaky, and we are backing both to score here.