Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Levante 1st with 79 points, Sporting Gijón 11th with 56, 23 apart. Recent form flatters Sporting Gijón's table spot — 5th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 11th. Against a league average of 1.27 goals per team per game, Levante ran at 1.64 scored and 1 conceded, Sporting Gijón at 1.36 and 1.29.
11 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Levante 5, draws 5, Sporting Gijón 1, at 1.91 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 36% of those meetings.
Estadio Ciudad de Valencia in Valencia staged the fixture, a ground that holds 26,354. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.