About Match
Sporting Gijón go into the game 14th in the table on 7 points; Albacete sit 21st on 1 — a 6-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Sporting Gijón 0.4 scored and 0.6 conceded per game, Albacete 0.6 and 1.6, with the league averaging 1.15. Three points here take Sporting Gijón to 10 and up to 2nd, assuming other results stand.
6 games without a win frame Albacete's arrival. Over the last five, Sporting Gijón have taken 7 of 15 points to Albacete's 1.
Across 18 recorded meetings, Sporting Gijón have 6 wins to Albacete's 4, with 8 draws, at 2.89 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 28% of meetings won. Shutting the other side out is rare here — both scored in 72% of the meetings. The last five meetings averaged 4 goals, well above the all-time 2.89.
Estadio Municipal El Molinón in Gijón stages the fixture, a ground that holds 30,000.