📊 Form Guide

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander will play in this match after a 1-1 La Liga 2 drawn match against FC Andorra.

In that game, Racing de Santander had 51% possession and 17 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Racing de Santander was Andrés Martín (66'). At the other end, FC Andorra got 20 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Julen Lobete (32') scored for FC Andorra.

It’s not been often in recent times where Racing de Santander haven’t conceded. In fact, Racing de Santander have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 7 goals along the way.

Ahead of this meeting, Racing de Santander are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Elche CF

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In their last fixture, Elche CF drew 2-2 in the La Liga 2 match with Espanyol.

In that game, Elche CF managed 59% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 on target. For Elche CF, the goals were scored by Mourad (12') and John Donald (81'). On the other side, Espanyol got 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Javi Puado (2') and Martin Braithwaite (71') scored for Espanyol.

The numbers tell their own story, and Elche CF have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 10 goals in total. Defensively, Elche CF could really do with shoring things up. We will have to find out if that trend will be sustained into this next match.

Going into this encounter, Elche CF have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

A review of their past head to head clashes going back to 05/05/2002 shows us that Racing de Santander have won 0 of these and Elche CF 3, with the tally of draws being 3.

A total of 8 goals were produced between them in these games, with 2 of them for Los Racinguistas and 6 coming from Los Franjiverdes. The average goals per game has been 1.33.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was La Liga 2 match day 4 on 02/09/2023 when the final score was Elche CF 1-1 Racing de Santander.

That day, Elche CF had 59% possession and 24 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Nicolás Castro (30').

For their opponents, Racing de Santander got 12 shots at goal with 6 on target. Juan Carlos Arana (53') scored.

The referee was Álvaro Moreno Aragón.

📰 Team News: Racing de Santander

The Racing de Santander manager José Alberto López will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of coming into this game owing to a completely healthy squad to choose from.

We think that Los Racinguistas will possibly opt for a 4-2-3-1 system this time and select Jokin Ezkieta, Dani Fernandez, Manu, German Sanchez, Mario Garcia, Inigo Sainz-Maza, Ivan Morante, Junior Lago, Aritz Aldasoro, Inigo Vicente and Juan Carlos Arana.

ℹ️ Team News: Elche CF

With a completely healthy squad available for selection, the Elche CF boss Sebastián Beccacece has zero fitness worries to speak of ahead of this game.

We believe Los Franjiverdes could decide to elect for a 4-4-2 system by sending out Matias Dituro, Josan, Mario Gaspar, Pedro Bigas, Sergio Carreira, Sergio Bermejo, Jhegson Mendez, Nicolas Castro, Tete Morente, Mourad Daoudi and Nicolas Fernandez.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Elche CF and Racing de Santander may both find scoring difficult here.

We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. That is why we are leaning toward a tight encounter with a 0-0 scoreline at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 16:06 04/05/2024