📏 Form Guide

Racing Ferrol

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Racing Ferrol will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-0 La Liga 2 defeat last time out to Albacete.

In that game, Racing Ferrol had 46% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Albacete Balompie had 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Nabil Touaizi (9') and Higinio Marín (89') scored for Albacete.

Racing Ferrol have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their goals record stands at just 4 against opposing sides over their last six matches. In those meetings, Racing Ferrol have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 6. Still, we will just have to wait and see if the trend shall persist in this upcoming game or not.

Coming into this meeting, Racing Ferrol are unbeaten in the league by Sporting Gijón in their last 5 matches.

Sporting Gijón

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Sporting Gijón will come into the clash following a 3-2 La Liga 2 win versus FC Cartagena in their most recent match.

In that match, Sporting Gijón managed 67% possession and 25 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Sporting Gijón, the goalscorers were César Gelabert (45'), Gaspar Campos (59') and Nacho Martín (63'). On the other side, Cartagena had 9 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Daniel Luna (25') and Nacho Martínez (85') scored for FC Cartagena.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring Sporting Gijón, three or more goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per game within that time is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by Sporting Gijón standing at 2.

Leading up to this clash, Sporting Gijón:

• have not registered a win against Racing Ferrol when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 matches in the league. Not good.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 03/06/2006 shows that Racing Ferrol have won 3 of them and Sporting Gijón 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 10 from Ferrol and 7 coming from Rojiblancos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league contest featuring the two was La Liga 2 match day 19 on 15/12/2024 when it ended Sporting Gijón 1-3 Racing Ferrol.

In that match, Sporting Gijón had 71% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Olaetxea (33').

For their opponents, Racing Ferrol had 7 shots at goal with 3 on target. Nacho Sánchez (15'), Josué Dorrio (27') and Aitor Buñuel (44') scored.

The match was refereed by Andrés Fuentes Molina.

🗞️ Team News: Racing Ferrol

It looks as if Racing Ferrol could kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one with Yoel Rodríguez, Roberto Correa, Naldo Gomes, Emanuel Insua, Brais Martinez, Fran Manzanara, Josep Señe, Josué Dorrio, Álvaro Sanz, Héber Pena and Álvaro Giménez.

ℹ️ Team News: Sporting Gijón

There’s a good chance that Rojiblancos appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Rubén Yáñez, Guille Rosas, Diego Sánchez, Nikola Maras, Pablo García, Nacho Martín, Nacho Méndez, Dani Queipo, César Gelabert, Campos Gaspar and Juan Ferney Otero.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Racing Ferrol will need to put in a solid display to score against this Sporting Gijón team who we think will likely score one, at least.

Our tip is therefore for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 win for Sporting Gijón at the conclusion of the game.

It should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 14:01 31/05/2025