📏 Form Guide

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-1 La Liga 2 defeat in their last game at the hands of Burgos.

In that match, Racing de Santander had 59% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Racing de Santander was Juan Carlos Arana (23'). Burgos had 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Ander Martín (8') and Curro Sánchez (99') scored for Burgos.

Racing de Santander have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, although they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Racing de Santander have seen their goal breached in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. That being said, it remains to be seen whether that trend might persist in this game.

Levante

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Since a loss in their previous game against Amorebieta in La Liga 2 action, Levante will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Levante had 52% possession and 25 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Levante was Pablo Martínez (65'). On the other side, Amorebieta got 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Eneko Jauregi (68') and Iker Unzueta (89') scored for Amorebieta.

Felipe Minambres's Levante have found the back of the net 7 times throughout their previous six matches. The total of goals that they have conceded during that period comes to 6.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Levante:

• remain unbeaten by Racing de Santander when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
• are without a win away from home in their last 12 league games. Very poor, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 10/04/2011 tells us that Racing de Santander have won 2 of them and Levante 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 3.

12 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 of them from Los Racinguistas and 5 created by Levante. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league match featuring these clubs was La Liga 2 match day 16 on 20/11/2023 when it ended Levante 2-4 Racing de Santander.

In that match, Levante managed 60% possession and 26 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Óscar Clemente (11') and Iván Romero (45').

For their opponents, Racing de Santander got 9 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Juan Carlos Arana (22', 60') and Peque Fernández (53', 71') scored.

The referee was Iosu Galech Apezteguía.

📋 Team News: Racing de Santander

The Racing de Santander manager José Alberto López has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free group available to select from.

In our view, Los Racinguistas may well employ a 4-2-3-1 system with Jokin Ezkieta, D. F. Fernández, Manu Hernando, Germán Sánchez, Mario García, Iván Morante, Aritz Aldasoro, Jordi Mboula, G. F. Castellano, Iñigo Vicente and Juan Carlos Arana.

ℹ️ Team News: Levante

Due to a mostly healthy group of players, there is just the lone fitness issue for the Levante manager Felipe Minambres to contend with. Álex Blesa (Adductor injury) won’t be in action.

We are inclined to think that Levante will likely elect for a 4-4-2 formation by sending out Andres Fernandez, Andrés García, Adrián de la Fuente, Nikola Maras, Álex Muñoz, Roger Brugué, Ángel Algobia, Pablo Martínez, Robert Ibañez, Fabricio Santos and Dani Gómez.

🔮 Prediction

We’re thinking that Levante will have to perform well to breach the defence of this Racing de Santander team who we think will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

Therefore, we predict a very even contest with a 1-0 advantage for Racing de Santander at the end of this game.

Expecting it to be tight.

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

Lucas Pereira, 14:02 20/04/2024