Match Report
The table gap was wide: 21 points between Deportivo Alavés (4th, 71 pts) and Sporting Gijón (17th, 50 pts). The last five rounds placed Deportivo Alavés no better than 11th for form, against 4th in the standings. Per game in the league, Sporting Gijón were scoring 1.02 and conceding 1.14, Deportivo Alavés 1.12 and 0.79, against a competition average of 1.01 goals per team per game.
The head-to-head ledger counts 8 games: 2 Sporting Gijón wins, 2 for Deportivo Alavés, 4 draws, at 1.5 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 38% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals.
Estadio Municipal El Molinón in Gijon staged the fixture, a ground that holds 30,000. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.