📊 Form Guide

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-2 La Liga 2 triumph vs Leganés.

In that match, Racing de Santander managed 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For Racing de Santander, goals were scored by Maguette Gueye (26') and Villalibre (88'). On the other side, Leganes had 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Luis Asué (99') scored for Leganés.

Matches featuring Racing de Santander have often been engaging affairs of late with a lot of goalmouth action being the norm. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum total of 27 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 4.5 goals per game) with 16 of them being chalked up by Racing de Santander.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Racing de Santander:

• have not beaten Real Valladolid in their previous 7 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Real Valladolid

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Real Valladolid head into the meeting after a 2-0 La Liga 2 win with the downing of Real Zaragoza in their last fixture.

In that game, Real Valladolid had 44% possession and 6 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For Real Valladolid, the scorers were Latasa (4') and Ángel Carvajal (87'). Real Zaragoza got 8 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

A series of steadfast displays by the Real Valladolid defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 fixtures combined. In that time, their own attack force has managed to score 4. Despite that, we will just have to wait and see if the trend might be replicated in this next game or not.

Their prior results show that Real Valladolid:

• remain unbeaten by Racing de Santander in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 8 matches in the league. Who knows how long it might last, too.

👥 Head to head

A quick look at past results between these clubs stretching back to 08/05/2010 tells us that these fixtures have been miserable for Racing de Santander. They have not been able to get any victories at all while Real Valladolid have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league fixture between these sides was La Liga 2 match day 20 on 03/01/2026 when it ended Real Valladolid 1-1 Racing de Santander.

On that occasion, Real Valladolid had 44% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Tomeo (64').

On the other side, Racing de Santander got 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Martín (82') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by José Antonio Sánchez Villalobos.

🗞️ Team News: Racing de Santander

It’s our opinion that Los Racinguistas will probably make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation this time, utilising Simon Eriksson, Álvaro Mantilla, Manu Hernando, Pablo Ramón, Jorge Salinas, Maguette Gueye, Gustavo Puerta, Andrés Martín, Peio Canales, Iñigo Vicente and Giorgi Guliashvili.

📰 Team News: Real Valladolid

From our viewpoint, Pucela will likely begin the game with a 4-3-3 lineup, settling for Alvaro Aceves, Iván Alejo Peralta, Pablo Tomeo, Ramón Martínez, Carlos Clerc, Julien Ponceau, Stanko Juric, Mathis Lachuer, Peter Federico, Juanmi Latasa and Lucas Sanseviero.

🔮 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Real Valladolid should be able to break down this Racing de Santander side, although it probably won’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Racing de Santander when all is said and done. It’s a very tough call.

Victor Martins, 16:03 16/05/2026