Preview: 12 points separate the contenders before this game, Deportivo Alavés having done best. Can Racing Santander take the guests by surprise?
- Racing Santander have the fewest scored goals (6) in La Liga 2
- Deportivo Alavés have scored more than double the goals of Racing Santander.
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.
Racing Santander form and stats
With 1 La Liga 2 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats from their home games, Racing Santander are certainly not brimming with confidence. The last three games played by Racing Santander, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
Racing Santander shared the glory with Leganes in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Parera, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.93 out of 10 in that game. Parera topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that, Santander drew at home versus Ponferradina.It should be taken into account that a look at the 13 latest league matches shows that 11 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Racing Santander as they are travelling to their away game against FC Andorra in the La Liga 2. That match is four days after this one.
Santander have scored {2 goals} here in 6 league matches, a depressing statistic. Racing Santander are not conceding a lot of goals here at Campos de Sport de El Sardinero in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Deportivo Alavés form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their La Liga 2 travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
Alavés are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the game against Real Oviedo (placed 17th). The end of the last match, against Real Oviedo, was very satisfying as Sevilla scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Abqar, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.42. Abqar scored one goal and won 5 of 6 duels.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Sporting Gijon.A quick return to home after this game, as Deportivo Alavés are hosting Real Zaragoza in the La Liga 2 only three days away.
Deportivo Alavés are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). Deportivo Alavés have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Deportivo Alavés have won or drawn the last 4 fixtures (2-2-0) against Santander.Top Goalscorers
  L. Rioja González 3 goals |  M. De la Fuente Escudero 3 goals |  N. Tenaglia 2 goals |
Racing Santander missing players
Deportivo Alavés missing players
| Racing Santander | Deportivo Alavés | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 11 |
| 69% | 67% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 46% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 54% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 62% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 4.7 | 5.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 5 | 3.9 |
| 2.5 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.2 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 11.4 | 12.5 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.7 | 10.7 | 11.5 |
| 3.5 | 4 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| 13% | 8% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 37% | 31% |
| 11.7 | 11.5 | 27 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 13.3 | 11.5 |
| 3.8 | 3.5 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 2.6 |
- Deportivo Alavés have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Deportivo Alavés have scored more than double the goals of Racing Santander.
- Deportivo Alavés haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Racing Santander have the fewest matches over the total-line (1) in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have the fewest scored goals (2) at home in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have the fewest scored goals (6) in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have the most matches under the total-line (12) in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Las Palmas | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 26 |
| 2 | Deportivo Alavés | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 26 |
| 3 | Burgos | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 24 |
| 4 | Granada | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | FC Cartagena | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 6 | Huesca | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 7 | Albacete | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Levante | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 9 | Eibar | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 10 | Sporting Gijon | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| 11 | FC Andorra | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 18 |
| 12 | Villarreal II | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -1 | 16 |
| 13 | Real Zaragoza | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 16 |
| 14 | Tenerife | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 14 |
| 15 | Leganes | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 14 |
| 16 | Racing Santander | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 14 |
| 17 | Real Oviedo | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -4 | 13 |
| 18 | Ponferradina | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -7 | 13 |
| 19 | Lugo | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 12 |
| 20 | UD Ibiza | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 11 |
| 21 | Malaga | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | -8 | 9 |
| 22 | Mirandes | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -7 | 8 |
