Match Report
25 points separated the sides: Mallorca 2nd on 82, Ponferradina 8th on 57. On recent form Ponferradina sat only 18th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 8th overall. Per game in the league, Ponferradina were scoring 1.07 and conceding 1.19, Mallorca 1.29 and 0.67, against a competition average of 1.03 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Mallorca, winners of their last three. The last-five ledger: Ponferradina 3/15, Mallorca 13/15.
7 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Ponferradina 2, draws 1, Mallorca 4, at 2.43 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 71% of the meetings.
Estadio El Toralín in Ponferrada, capacity 8,800, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.