Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Getafe 12th with 43 points, Almería 19th with 21, 22 apart. Almería ranked 12th in the league on five-round form, well above their 19th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Almería 1.13 scored and 1.97 conceded per game, Getafe 1.11 and 1.42, with the league averaging 1.32.
The sides have met 15 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Almería, 3 draws and 7 for Getafe, at 2.27 goals per meeting.
With 97 matches recorded and 2.3 yellow cards per game, G. Cuadra Fernández was the man in the middle. Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos in Almeria staged the fixture, a ground that holds 15,000. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-3.