📏 Form Guide

Real Oviedo

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Real Oviedo will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-3 La Liga 2 loss in their previous game against Córdoba CF.

In that game, Real Oviedo had 54% possession and 15 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. For Real Oviedo, the scorers were Oier Luengo (44') and Ilyas Chaira (61'). On the other side, Cordoba had 13 shots on goal with 7 on target. Nikolay Obolskiy (6'), José Martínez (21') and Théo Zidane (45') scored for Córdoba CF.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Real Oviedo have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Real Oviedo have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 13 goals in the process. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.

A look at their previous results shows us that Real Oviedo:

• have not been beaten by Sporting Gijón in games played at home for the previous 8 league games. It's an excellent home head-to-head record against them.
• haven't won against Sporting Gijón in their last 4 league matches.

Sporting Gijón

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Since being beaten in their last game against Málaga in La Liga 2 competition, Sporting Gijón and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Sporting Gijón had 54% possession and 23 shots at goal with 8 on target. The scorer for Sporting Gijón was Campuzano (82'). At the other end, Malaga had 7 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Roko Baturina (46') and Dioni (86', 94') scored for Málaga.

Looking at their form, and Sporting Gijón have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in all. In defence, Sporting Gijón can certainly do much better.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 16/04/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Real Oviedo winning 2 of those games, Sporting Gijón 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 9 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 for Carbayones and 5 created by Rojiblancos. That is an average goals per game value of 1.5.

The last league meeting between the two was La Liga 2 match day 4 on 07/09/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Sporting Gijón 3-1 Real Oviedo.

On that day, Sporting Gijón had 32% possession and 10 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Goals were scored by Juan Ferney Otero (20'), Cote (38') and Campuzano (76').

At the other end, Real Oviedo got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Ilyas Chaira (49') was the scorer.

The referee was Manuel Jesús Orellana Cid.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Oviedo

It seems likely that Carbayones look set to use a 4-4-2 system this time, handing starts to Aaron Escandell, Oier Luengo, David Costas, Dani Calvo, Carlos Pomares, Haissem Hassan, Santiago Colombatto, Kwasi Sibo, Ilyas Chaira, Alexandre Alemão and Federico Viñas.

📰 Team News: Sporting Gijón

From our viewpoint, Rojiblancos seem likely to make use of a 4-3-3 system, starting the game with Rubén Yáñez, Guille Rosas, Diego Sánchez, Rober Pier, Pablo García, Lander Olaetxea, Nacho Méndez, Jesús Bernal, Campos Gaspar, Víctor Campuzano and Dani Queipo.

⚡ Prediction

For this match, we think that Sporting Gijón have the firepower to break down this Real Oviedo side, however that might not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Our tip is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Real Oviedo at full-time. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 19:02 11/01/2025