Eibar vs Sporting Gijón Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Eibar

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Eibar will be looking for an improved result here following the 1-0 La Liga 2 loss in their previous game against Racing de Santander.

In that match, Eibar managed 66% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Racing Santander had 6 shots on goal with 3 on target. Iñigo Vicente (43') was the scorer for Racing de Santander.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Eibar have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Eibar have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 8 goals on the way. That kind of trend isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, though.

Coming into this clash, Eibar are without a home win in the past 4 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Sporting Gijón

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In their previous game, Sporting Gijón drew 1-1 in the La Liga 2 tie with Real Oviedo.

In that match, Sporting Gijón managed 55% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Sporting Gijón was Uroš Đurđević (51'). For their opponents, Real Oviedo got 10 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Sergi Enrich (45') was the scorer for Real Oviedo.

The stats don’t lie, and Sporting Gijón have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals in total. At the back, Sporting Gijón have seen their frailties exposed.

Coming into this clash, Sporting Gijón are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head meetings going back to 14/05/2017 shows that Eibar have won 2 of these games & Sporting Gijón 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 for Armeros and 9 netted by Rojiblancos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

The previous league match between these sides was La Liga 2 match day 11 on 17/10/2022 when the final score was Sporting Gijón 2-0 Eibar.

In that match, Sporting Gijón managed 39% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Pedro Díaz (28') and Cristo González (86').

Eibar got 13 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Iván Caparrós Hernández.

🗞️ Team News: Eibar

There is just the lone fitness concern for the Eibar boss Gaizka Garitano to be concerned with from an otherwise fully-primed group. Imanol García de Albéniz (Achilles tendon rupture) is out of contention.

It looks as if Armeros will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one featuring Luca Zidane, Á. T. Sacristán, Frederico Venancio, Juan Berrocal, A. Zabala Arbilla, Peru Nolaskoain, Matheus Pereira, José Corpas, Stoichkov, Yanis Rahmani and Jon Bautista.

📰 Team News: Sporting Gijón

Thanks to a completely healthy squad available to select from, the Sporting Gijón manager Miguel Ángel Ramírez has zero fitness concerns at all ahead of this match.

We believe Rojiblancos seem most likely to play in a 4-4-2 lineup, starting Ivan Cuellar, Carlos Izquierdoz, Guille Rosas, Bruno González, Diego Sánchez, Aitor Garcia, Pedro Díaz Fanjul, Jonathan Varane, Dani Queipo, Uros Djurdjevic and Juan Ferney Otero.

✨ Prediction

Eibar are likely to have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

Conversely, Sporting Gijón might well find it a difficult task to score themselves although we do see them managing to get on the scoresheet here.

We’re therefore anticipating a comfortable 3-1 win for Eibar at the end of this one.

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

Andre Moura, 00:42 16/05/2023