Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Deportivo Alavés (4th, 71 pts) held a 27-point advantage over Ponferradina (20th, 44 pts). The last five rounds placed Ponferradina 8th in the league for form — higher than their 20th in the standings. In league terms the two rates read 0.95/1.26 for Ponferradina and 1.12/0.79 for Deportivo Alavés (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.01.
Ponferradina had gone 9 games without a win.
7 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Ponferradina 2, draws 1, Deportivo Alavés 4, at 2.86 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 71% of the meetings went to the host. Goals tend to flow: 71% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 71%.
The match was played at Estadio El Toralín in Ponferrada (capacity 8,800). The referee was R. Sánchez López, with 90 matches in our database and 2.6 yellows per game on average. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 1-0 full-time score.