Almería will battle it out with FC Cartagena in this La Liga 2 game. All you need to know about the match can be found here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Almería form and stats
The home fans saw their team lose the first La Liga 2 game of the season here at Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos. Last season these fans witnessed 10 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses from Almería's 21 home games. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Almería to get some points in this home game.
Almería haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 348 minutes ago. A. Aketxe scored that one.
No payout for Almería in their previous match, an away game at Las Palmas that ended in defeat 0-2. Heartbreak before that as Almería lost 0-1 at UD Logroñés's place.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Almería have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 16 games) they have won seven times, drawn five and lost four.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Almería as they have a new game in only three days, a La Liga 2 match thankfully also at home. Fuenlabrada are visiting.
Early season league goal statistics from Almería's 1 home game: 0 goals, 1 conceded.
FC Cartagena form and stats
FC Cartagena are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the La Liga 2, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Cartagena played 1-1 against Fuenlabrada in their previous match. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Ponferradina.
We have checked recent matches where FC Cartagena have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those two games were zero victories, zero draws and two defeats.
A new game in only three days for Cartagena, the La Liga 2 home match versus Las Palmas. Busy days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Cartagena have scored 3 goals in 3 league games away. 3 goals have been conceded by FC Cartagena in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - two - zero (Almería wins - draws - FC Cartagena wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Zorrilla Jiménez 2 goals |  R. Castro Martín 2 goals |   A. Aketxe Barrutia 1 goals |
Almería missing players
FC Cartagena missing players
| Almería | FC Cartagena | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 67% | 33% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | 11 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 26 | 47 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 11 | 20 |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 27% | 30% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Espanyol | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | Fuenlabrada | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Sporting Gijon | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Mallorca | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Ponferradina | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Las Palmas | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | Rayo Vallecano | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | Leganes | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 9 | Mirandes | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | Castellón | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 11 | FC Cartagena | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Malaga | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 13 | Real Oviedo | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
| 14 | Tenerife | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 15 | Lugo | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 6 |
| 16 | Real Zaragoza | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 17 | Alcorcón | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 18 | UD Logroñés | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 4 |
| 19 | Albacete | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -4 | 4 |
| 20 | Almería | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 21 | Girona | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 22 | Sabadell | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -8 | 0 |