Match Report
Albacete went into the game 16th in the table on 52 points; Numancia sat 20th on 50 — a 2-point gap. Numancia's recent output outran their position: 5th on form over five rounds, 20th in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: Albacete 0.86 scored and 1.1 conceded per game, Numancia 1.07 and 1.26, with the league averaging 1.14.
9 games without a win framed Albacete's arrival.
The head-to-head ledger counts 13 games: 3 Albacete wins, 7 for Numancia, 3 draws, at 2.23 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 31% of the wins in this fixture. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 31% of the meetings went over two goals.
With 92 matches recorded and 2.5 yellow cards per game, J. González Esteban was the man in the middle. Estadio Carlos Belmonte in Albacete, capacity 17,524, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, Numancia led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-1.