Real Zaragoza vs Leganés Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Real Zaragoza

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Real Zaragoza head into this match coming off the back of a 0-0 La Liga 2 stalemate versus CD Lugo.

In that game, Real Zaragoza had 56% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Lugo had 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

A recurring feature of recent Real Zaragoza games is the number of nil scores.

Taking their prior six matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have been a loser.

Leganés

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Ibiza in La Liga 2 action, Leganés will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Leganés managed 69% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. On the other side, Ibiza got 9 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Mateusz Bogusz (64') was the scorer for Ibiza.

Clashes featuring Leganés have ended up being rather bland encounters latterly with a scarcity of goals almost becoming expected. During their past half dozen games, the trivial gross goal return of 5 has been recorded between both them and their opposition at an average goals per game of 0.83. In any event, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern will be replicated in this upcoming game.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Leganés:

• remain unbeaten by Real Zaragoza in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 7 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 06/02/2016 tells us that Real Zaragoza have won 1 of these games & Leganés 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

A combined sum of 15 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 3 of them from Blanquillos and 12 belonging to Leganés. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was La Liga 2 match day 21 on 19/12/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Leganés 2-1 Real Zaragoza.

On that day, Leganés managed 52% possession and 6 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Juan Muñoz (33', 75').

For their opponents, Real Zaragoza had 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Giuliano Simeone (17') was the scorer.

The referee was Francisco José Hernández Maeso.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Zaragoza

The Real Zaragoza manager Fran Escribá doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game owing to a fully healthy squad ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Leganés

Thanks to a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Leganés manager Imanol Idiákez has no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment is that Leganés will likely create enough chances to score a goal against this Real Zaragoza team, but that is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a 2-1 advantage for Real Zaragoza at the end of the match. It’s a very tough call.

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

Lucas Pereira, 02:44 08/03/2023