Football Bet of the Day: Back Parakeets to punish Cartagena

• Cartagena have lost 4/4 at home
  

• Espanyol have won 5/7 home and away
  

• Back Espanyol to win
  

FC Cartagena v Espanyol
Thursday 20:30 (Live on LaLigaSportsTV)

In Spain last night, we landed a Champions League winner as Atletico Madrid twice came from behind to beat Feyenoord 3-2.

We're sticking in Spain today and dipping into the Segunda Division for rock-bottom Cartagena's home game with third-placed Espanyol. We fancy the visitors can come away with all three points.

Julian Calero's hosts have lost all of their first four Segunda Division games at Cartagonova. The Zebras scored just twice across 360 minutes of action, while conceding five times across their most recent two appearances.

Luis Garcia's Espanyol are W5-D2-L1 through the first eight rounds of the campaign, winning five of their last seven. On the road, they lost 1-0 at second-placed Tenerife last time out - but won the two away games preceding that.

Cartagena don't look to be in Tenerife's class, so we'll take the Parakeets - who scored 13 in the 4 games around that Tenerife trip - to outgun the Zebras tonight.

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