Saturday's La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A predictions and free football tips
Atletico can heap more misery on sorry Sevilla
Best bets and predictions for Saturday's matches in La Liga, the Bundesliga and Serie A.
Best bets
Atletico Madrid draw no bet v Sevilla
Premier Sports 2, 5.30pm
1pt 8-11 bet365, Hills
Freiburg to beat Mainz 2.30pm
1pt 11-10 general
Both teams to score in Napoli v Torino 2pm
1pt 10-11 bet365
Sevilla v Atletico Madrid
There were calls from Sevilla fans for manager Julen Lopetegui to be sacked at the end of the club's last home game in La Liga - a 3-0 mauling by Barcelona - and things have not really improved for the Andalusians since.
Sevilla were humbled 4-0 by Manchester City in the Champions League, picked up their only win of the campaign away to Espanyol and then drew 0-0 and 1-1 with Copenhagen and Villarreal.
Goals have undoubtedly been a problem - Youssef En-Nesyri looks a shadow of the striker he was in the 2020-21 season and summer signing Kasper Dolberg is yet to get going - and the team could struggle against Atletico Madrid.
Diego Simeone's Atleti have plenty of work to do but they have already beaten Getafe, Valencia, Porto and Celta Vigo this term before putting up a fight in the Madrid derby last time out. They are worth chancing in the draw-no-bet market.
Freiburg v Mainz
Determined to prove last season's sixth-placed finish was no fluke, Freiburg are impressing in the Bundesliga once again this campaign, winning four of their seven league games before the international break.
They have failed to win either of their last two league contests but a pair of 0-0 draws against Borussia Monchengladbach and Hoffenheim - teams in the top six - is far from disastrous.
Defensively solid and remarkably strong from set pieces, the Black Forest club are serious contenders for the European places once again this season and can get the better of Mainz on Saturday.
Mainz were thumped 4-1 by Hoffenheim in their last away contest and will be missing key forward Jonathan Burkardt for their trip to the Europa-Park Stadion.
Napoli v Torino
With five wins and two draws to their name, Napoli have made an electrifying start to the Serie A season and a rejuvenated attack has played a key part in that.
Losing Lorenzo Insigne and Dries Mertens in the summer could have been problematic for the Naples side but they recruited well and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Giacomo Raspadori and Giovanni Simeone have all been in the goals.
Both teams have scored in four of their last six games in all competitions and that looks a decent betting approach when they host Torino.
Both teams to score treble
Games at Napoli 10-11, Eintracht Frankfurt 3-4, Inter 4-6.
A £1 treble returns £4.52 with bet365
Goalscorer bet
Michael Gregoritsch to score in Freiburg v Mainz
1pt 21-10 bet365
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