Sporting Gijón vs Espanyol Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sporting Gijón

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Sporting Gijón, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-1 La Liga 2 victory over Albacete.

In that game, Sporting Gijón managed 62% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Sporting Gijón was Jean-Sylvain Babin (31'). Albacete got 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

An interesting feature of more recent Sporting Gijón games is the number of nil scores.

From their prior six matches before this one, in as many as 6 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would have lost. That pattern might not follow through into this match, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sporting Gijón:

• have not emerged victorious against Espanyol in their previous 4 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 13 home league matches. What a fortress they have created.

Espanyol

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Espanyol head into the match after a 1-0 La Liga 2 win vs CE Sabadell in their previous fixture.

In that game, Espanyol had 45% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Espanyol was Raúl de Tomás (52'). On the other side, CE Sabadell FC had 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target.

The stats tell the story, and Espanyol have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals overall. Defensively, Periquitos have been far from perfect.

A look at their previous results shows us that Espanyol:

• have not been beaten by Sporting Gijón in games played away from home for the previous 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/04/2012 shows that Sporting Gijón have won 2 of them and Espanyol 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

In all, 19 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 of them for Rojiblancos and 10 coming from Periquitos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The last league game between the two was La Liga 2 match day 17 on 06/12/2020 when it finished Espanyol 2-0 Sporting Gijón.

That day, Espanyol managed 49% possession and 21 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Wu Lei (88') and Sergi Darder (97').

For their opponents, Sporting Gijón got 4 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Gorka Sagués Oscoz.

🗞️ Team News: Sporting Gijón

Sporting Gijón manager David Gallego has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all before this game owing to a fully injury-free group available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Espanyol

Due to a mostly healthy group, there is only the lone fitness worry for the Espanyol boss Vicente Moreno to be concerned with. Miguelón (Knee Injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

Sporting Gijón might well have a job on their hands to put one past this Espanyol team who we think might do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a good battle with a 0-1 winning score for Espanyol at full-time.

There should be little in it.

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Andre Moura, 00:23 24/02/2021