Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Girona 3rd with 81 points, Almería 19th with 21, 60 apart. Almería ranked 12th in the league on five-round form, well above their 19th table position. Per game in the league, Almería were scoring 1.13 and conceding 1.97, Girona 2.24 and 1.21, against a competition average of 1.32 goals per team per game.
Almería had gone 9 games without a win. Girona were unbeaten in 14, having scored in 14 consecutive games. Almería had banked 1 of the last 15 points on offer; Girona, 13.
Across 23 recorded meetings, Almería have 10 wins to Girona's 7, with 6 draws, at 2.57 goals per meeting. 4.8 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a step up from the historical 2.57.
Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos in Almeria, capacity 15,000, hosted the game. The referee was M. Busquets Ferrer, with 72 matches in our database and 2.9 yellows per game on average. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.