Evenly matched teams: Naval vs Samano match preview

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Competition: Spain Tercera - Group 3
Competition: Sun 30.January
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Campo de San Francisco (1500 seats)

A total of 16 rounds of fixtures are played and both Naval and Samano are up there with the best. Game on!

Insights:
  • Naval have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Tercera - Group 3
  • Samano is in the best form (4-1-1) in Tercera - Group 3

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Naval form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Campo de San Francisco as Naval have scored 8 goals to get 18 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Tercera - Group 3 are 5-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Naval haven’t lost a league-game in 13 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Noja, 112 days ago.

The home team returns to Campo de San Francisco after drawing with Selaya (placed 15th) on their last time out; the game ended 1-1.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Gimnastica Torrelavega.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Naval here at Campo de San Francisco in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 9 games). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Naval have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Samano form and stats

Samano have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Tercera - Group 3, after 2-3-4 (9 played).

Impressive finishing from Robson secured the home win 2-1 against Siete Villas in their previous game.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Castro at their stadium, the result 1-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Samano playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were one Samano win, one draw and two defeats.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Samano's away games in the league this season with only 5 goals from 9 matches. The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Samano have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

This duo faced each other before this campaign: Samano - Naval 2-0. Statistics for the previous three meetings involving these two participants are: zero wins for Naval, one draw and two wins for Samano. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

SamanoJ. Delgado Fidalgo
J. Delgado Fidalgo
5 goals
NavalD. Horno Chamorro
D. Horno Chamorro
4 goals
SamanoF. González Argal
F. González Argal
4 goals

Naval missing players

Samano missing players

Naval Samano
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 2 9 17
7 5 2 Won W 0 2 7
7 3 1 Drew D 0 3 6
3 1 0 Lost L 2 4 4
20 8 4 Scored S 0 5 22
12 2 0 Conceded C 8 13 19
76% 67% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 82%
59% 33% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 44% 65%
24% 11% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 44% 41%
18% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 22% 24%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 11% 18%
41% 11% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 22% 41%
53% 89% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 44% 41%
29% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 56% 35%
 
2.5 2 2 Corners for (avg) C F 7 3.8 5.3
6 4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5 3.3
4 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 1.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.5 7 7 Shots (avg) S ( 10 7.8 8.4
5.5 3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.8 3.7
36% 67% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 18% 38%
 
9.8 5 5 Shots against (avg) S A 9 8.5 8.9
3.8 3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4 4.7
Key stats in Tercera - Group 3 this season:
  • Naval have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Naval have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Naval have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Tercera - Group 3
  • Naval have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Samano have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Samano have created more than twice as many corners as Naval.
  • Samano have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Samano have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Samano is in the best form (4-1-1) in Tercera - Group 3

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gimnastica Torrelavega 17 9 7 1 31 12 8 7 1 0 23 5 9 2 6 1 8 7 19 34
2 Escobedo 17 8 4 5 25 16 8 5 2 1 15 5 9 3 2 4 10 11 9 28
3 Naval 16 7 6 3 19 11 9 5 3 1 8 2 7 2 3 2 11 9 8 27
4 Vimenor 16 7 6 3 20 14 8 6 1 1 12 4 8 1 5 2 8 10 6 27
5 Samano 17 7 6 4 22 19 8 5 3 0 17 6 9 2 3 4 5 13 3 27
6 Cultural Guarnizo 16 4 10 2 22 18 9 1 7 1 9 9 7 3 3 1 13 9 4 22
7 Torina 16 5 7 4 15 11 7 2 5 0 5 2 9 3 2 4 10 9 4 22
8 Siete Villas 17 6 4 7 26 25 9 4 2 3 18 16 8 2 2 4 8 9 1 22
9 Castro 16 5 6 5 17 16 9 4 2 3 9 7 7 1 4 2 8 9 1 21
10 Cartes 16 4 9 3 16 15 9 4 4 1 11 7 7 0 5 2 5 8 1 21
11 Noja 16 4 7 5 23 26 7 2 2 3 10 12 9 2 5 2 13 14 -3 19
12 Barreda 17 4 6 7 17 23 9 4 3 2 13 10 8 0 3 5 4 13 -6 18
13 Textil Escudo 16 4 6 6 13 19 7 2 4 1 8 8 9 2 2 5 5 11 -6 18
14 Atletico Albericia 16 3 7 6 18 22 8 3 5 0 11 8 8 0 2 6 7 14 -4 16
15 Selaya 16 1 8 7 12 26 7 1 5 1 5 6 9 0 3 6 7 20 -14 11
16 Colindres 17 2 3 12 14 37 9 2 2 5 10 19 8 0 1 7 4 18 -23 9

Read more about Tercera - Group 3

Tercera División is the fourth level of football in Spain. It is divided into 18 regional groups. Most of these groups feature 20 teams who play each other home and away for a total of 380 fixtures. At the end of the season the top four teams in each group league table go into a promotion playoff.