📊 Form Guide

Leganés

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Leganés will play in this game coming off the back of a 0-0 La Liga 2 drawn result versus SD Huesca.

In that game, Leganés had 48% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Huesca had 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

An interesting trait of recent Leganés games is the number of nil scores.

Taking their prior 6 matches before this one, in 5 of them a bet on both teams scoring would have been a losing one. Such a trend won’t necessarily follow through here, of course.

Ahead of this meeting, Leganés are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Espanyol

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Espanyol come into this clash after a 2-1 La Liga 2 win against Albacete in their last match.

In that match, Espanyol had 54% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Espanyol, the goals were scored by Jofre Carreras (14') and Nico Melamed (53'). At the other end, Albacete Balompie had 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Alberto Quiles (9') scored for Albacete.

In 5 of the past six clashes featuring Espanyol, a relatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell works out to just 1.33, with the number of goals averaged by Periquitos standing at 0.83.

Their past results show that Espanyol:

• have not won against Leganés in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 12/05/2019 shows that Leganés have won 4 of them and Espanyol 2, with the number of draws standing at 0.

A combined sum of 11 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 from Leganés and 4 created by Periquitos. The average goals per game has been 1.83.

📋 Team News: Leganés

The Leganés boss Borja Jiménez doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all before this clash thanks to a fully healthy group available to select from.

We are thinking that Leganés should go for a 4-4-2 formation for this game, handing starts to Diego Conde, Allan Nyom, Jorge Saenz, Sergio Gonzalez, Enric Franquesa, Juan Cruz, Iker Undabarrena, Yvan Neyou Noupa, Francisco Portillo, Daniel Raba and Diego Garcia.

🗞️ Team News: Espanyol

With a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Espanyol manager Manolo González doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Periquitos seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-4-2 lineup using Joan Garcia, Omar El Hilali, Sergi Gomez, Leandro Cabrera, Brian Olivan, Jofre Carreras, Jose Gragera, Keidi Bare, Nico Ribaudo, Martin Braithwaite and Gaston Valles.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Espanyol could find themselves up against it to find the net against this Leganés side who we reckon will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore anticipating a very competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Leganés when all is said and done.

Little in this one.

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

Renata Leite, 18:14 12/04/2024