📏 Form Guide

FC Cartagena

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FC Cartagena will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-0 La Liga 2 loss in their previous game against Sporting Gijón.

In that match, FC Cartagena managed 44% possession and 7 shots at goal with 0 on target. At the other end, Sporting Gijon had 13 shots at goal with 6 on target. Mario González (33') scored for Sporting Gijón.

Their most recent results highlight the fact that huge efforts have been put in by the FC Cartagena defence. FC Cartagena have been mean at the back, with the tally of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their previous six outings standing at 4.

Real Oviedo

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In the game prior to this, Real Oviedo drew 1-1 in the La Liga 2 match with CD Mirandés.

In that match, Real Oviedo had 70% possession and 16 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Real Oviedo was Jaime Seoane (43'). For their opponents, Mirandes got 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Gabri Martínez (86') was the scorer for CD Mirandés.

The stats don’t lie, and Real Oviedo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 5 goals in total. Defensively, Real Oviedo certainly have room for improvement. Nonetheless, we will just have to wait and see whether the trend shall be maintained in this next match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 06/02/2021 shows that FC Cartagena have won 3 of these games and Real Oviedo 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 of them from Efesé and 7 for Carbayones. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was La Liga 2 match day 15 on 13/11/2023 when the final score was Real Oviedo 1-1 FC Cartagena.

In that game, Real Oviedo managed 72% possession and 18 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer was Paulino (97').

At the other end, FC Cartagena had 2 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Iván Calero (2') was the scorer.

The referee was Rubén Ávalos Barrera.

📋 Team News: FC Cartagena

The FC Cartagena manager Julián Calero has no fitness concerns to speak of before this game owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

We are thinking that Efesé could go for a 4-4-2 system this time with Raúl Lizoain, Diego Moreno, Pedro Alcala, Gonzalo Verdú, Jose Fontán, Iván Calero, Damian Musto, Andy Rodriguez, Jairo Izquierdo, Luis Muñoz and Dario Poveda.

📋 Team News: Real Oviedo

Owing to a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Real Oviedo boss Luis Carrión has zero fitness worries at all coming into this game.

We believe Carbayones appear most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Leo Román, V. Álvarez Rozada, Oier Luengo, Dani Calvo, Abel Bretones, Jimmy Suarez, Santiago Colombatto, Masca, Jaime Seoane, Sebastian Moyano and Alexandre Alemão.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that FC Cartagena might need a bit of good fortune to be putting a goal past this Real Oviedo lineup who we reckon should be able to grind out a win.

We’re therefore predicting a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Real Oviedo at the end of this one.

A close call.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 18:01 22/04/2024