📏 Form Guide

Sporting Gijón

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Sporting Gijón will be looking for an improved result here after a 3-1 La Liga 2 loss in their previous game against Amorebieta.

In that game, Sporting Gijón managed 65% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Sporting Gijón was Juan Ferney Otero (43'). At the other end, Amorebieta had 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Eneko Jauregi (23'), Jon Morcillo (45') and Ryan Edwards (91') scored for Amorebieta.

It has not been often in recent times that Sporting Gijón haven’t conceded. The reality is that Sporting Gijón have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals on the way. With no two games being the same, we must now wait to see whether the trend shall be sustained in this next game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Sporting Gijón:

• have not won against Racing de Santander in their previous 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Racing de Santander

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Racing de Santander come into this encounter following a 2-1 La Liga 2 win to defeat Eldense in their most recent match.

In that match, Racing de Santander had 52% possession and 16 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. For Racing de Santander, the scorers were Peque Fernández (26') and Roko Baturina (71'). On the other side, Eldense had 17 shots at goal with 6 on target. Juanto (93') scored for Eldense.

The stats don’t lie, and Racing de Santander have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in all. In defence, Racing de Santander have seen their frailties exposed.

A look at their previous results shows us that Racing de Santander:

• have not been beaten by Sporting Gijón in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 16/05/2015 tells us that Sporting Gijón have won 2 of these & Racing de Santander 3, with the number of drawn results being 1.

In all, 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 for Rojiblancos and 9 netted by Los Racinguistas. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league contest between these clubs was La Liga 2 match day 10 on 07/10/2023 when the final score was Racing de Santander 3-2 Sporting Gijón.

That time, Racing de Santander managed 43% possession and 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The goals were scored by Andrés Martín (28'), Peque Fernández (48') and Ekain Zenitagoia (83').

At the other end, Sporting Gijón got 21 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Gaspar Campos (32', 63') scored.

The match was refereed by Iosu Galech Apezteguía.

ℹ️ Team News: Sporting Gijón

There aren’t many selection issues, with just one fitness concern for the Sporting Gijón boss Miguel Ángel Ramírez to contend with due to a largely intact group of players. Víctor Campuzano (Muscle injury) is out of contention.

We are thinking that Rojiblancos will probably make use of the 4-4-2 formation for this one featuring Rubén Yáñez, Alexandru Pascanu, Pablo Insua, Rober Pier, José Angel, Fran Villalba, Roque Mesa Quevedo, Nacho Martín, Campos Gaspar, Juan Ferney Otero and Uros Djurdjevic.

📋 Team News: Racing de Santander

With a completely injury-free group available to select from, the Racing de Santander boss José Alberto López does not have any fitness worries at all before this match.

From our viewpoint, Los Racinguistas appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Jokin Ezkieta, Juan Gutiérrez, Manu Hernando, Germán Sánchez, Mario García, Iván Morante, Íñigo Sainz-Maza, Marco Sangalli, G. F. Castellano, Iñigo Vicente and Juan Carlos Arana.

✨ Prediction

In our view, Racing de Santander will need to apply a lot of pressure to put one past this Sporting Gijón outfit who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We’re therefore seeing a 1-0 win for Sporting Gijón at the end of the 90 minutes.

Should be interesting.

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Renata Leite, 17:02 30/03/2024