Friday Football Tips: Back a tight tussle between Almeria & Espanyol

• 10 of Espanyol's games this season have been level at HT

• Almeria's last three home games have gone under 2.5 goals

• Espanyol's opponents receive second-most cards in the league

• 17/2 Bet Builder treble for La Liga game

Let's head to Spain for a Friday night La Liga tussle between two sides sat in mid-table but still looking over their shoulders at the relegation scrap.

14th-placed Almeria host Espanyol, who are just one point and one place better off in the table, but have been in decent touch with back-to-back wins boosting their season.

Almeria's strength has been their home form, with all of their five wins this season coming on home turf and 16 of their 19 points won in front of their home fans.

It makes this a tough one to call as Espanyol are in good form and unbeaten in their last four away days including trips to local rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

They could be a nice bet then at 2/1 to win here, with Almeria 6/4 favourites and the draw, which could be the sneaky good play, at 9/4.

As this could be quite a tight one - Almeria's last three home games have gone under 2.5 goals along with four of Espanyol's last five.

10 of Espanyol's games have also been level at half-time so we'll add that to the unders for the basis of our Bet Builder, before taking a look at cards.

Almeria are also above Espanyol in the cards department, and have picked up 17 in their last four home games.

La Liga sides also get more cards against Espanyol than anyone else in the division apart from Valencia, so we'll take them to bat their recent average at home and get over 3.5 cards at 9/4.

That bumps up our Bet Builder nicely.