About Match
Sporting Gijón go into the game 14th in the table on 7 points; Real Valladolid sit 17th on 4 — a 3-point gap. Per game in the league, Sporting Gijón score 0.4 and conceding 0.6, Real Valladolid 0.4 and 1.4, against a competition average of 1.15 goals per team per game. Three points here take Sporting Gijón to 10 and up to 2nd, assuming other results stand.
The head-to-head ledger counts 17 games: 3 Sporting Gijón wins, 10 for Real Valladolid, 4 draws, at 2.94 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 35% of those meetings. Clean sheets are rare between these two — both scored in 71% of the meetings. The last five meetings averaged 3.8 goals, well above the all-time 2.94.
The match takes place at Estadio Municipal El Molinón in Gijón (capacity 30,000).