Crucial clash in the bottom section of the La Liga 2, with both Racing Santander and Tenerife feeling more distress than happiness. This match is a real "six-pointer" with the home side positioned 18th and the visitors in 16th place.
- Racing Santander have the fewest points (10) at home in La Liga 2
- Tenerife have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
These teams have little in common geographically as Tenerife have to travel 2300 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Racing Santander form and stats
Racing Santander's results here at Campos de Sport de El Sardinero in the La Liga 2 have been very modest with 2 victories, 4 draws and 5 defeats.
Racing Santander are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-3 away versus Deportivo Alaves. The first setback in the shape of a defeat after going undefeated through three league rounds. Pombo (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.35/10. Pombo hit the woodwork once, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 28 successful passes (of 33 total).
Ahead of that match, Santander won a home game hosting Sporting Gijon (2-0).It should be noted that a peek at the 24 most recent league games reveals that 18 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).
Racing Santander have scored {6 league goals} here from 11 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 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 9 from 11 matches. Santander has at home met teams with this table position (low), five times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 5 times.
Tenerife form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tenerife so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-6 (win-draw-lose).
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Tenerife goalkeeper Juan Soriano Oropesa is eager to challenge this, with his 184 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
It's the second away game in a row for Tenerife, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus FC Cartagena (placed 9th) last time out. That win felt good as this side had gone four league rounds without victory. The attacker Garcés got a match rating of 7.84 in that game. Garcés scored one goal and hit one key pass.
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Ponferradina.Lacking goals? 13 of this team's latest 17 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.
The attacking power of Tenerife when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 12 league matches away. Tenerife have conceded 17 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Tenerife - Racing Santander 1-0 was the end result in these sides' previous h2h fixture, played this season. Last seven meetings between these teams: Racing Santander won two, Tenerife triumphed in four and we saw one draw. three games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Gallego Puigsech 4 goals |   I. Vicente Elorduy 3 goals |  J. Pombo Escobar 3 goals |
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| Racing Santander | Tenerife | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 11 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 24 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 16 | 6 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 11 | 24 |
| 21 | 9 | 4 | Conceded | C | 5 | 17 | 25 |
| 83% | 82% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 50% | 45% | 40% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 67% |
| 21% | 9% | 20% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 42% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 25% | 17% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 27% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 58% | 50% |
| 42% | 36% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 29% |
| 50% | 55% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 29% |
| 4.8 | 6 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.9 | 5.2 |
| 4.3 | 4.6 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4 | 3.8 |
| 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 10.8 | 12.4 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 8.2 | 12.1 |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
| 16% | 11% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 41% | 29% |
| 12.3 | 11.7 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.2 | 9.4 | 8.5 |
| 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3 |
- Racing Santander have the fewest points (10) at home in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in La Liga 2
- Racing Santander have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Tenerife have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Tenerife have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Tenerife haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Eibar | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 46 |
| 2 | Las Palmas | 24 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 14 | 45 |
| 3 | Levante | 24 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 41 |
| 4 | Deportivo Alaves | 24 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 40 |
| 5 | Burgos | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | Granada | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 18 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 38 |
| 7 | Albacete | 23 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 29 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 36 |
| 8 | Leganés | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 34 |
| 9 | FC Cartagena | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 33 |
| 10 | FC Andorra | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 26 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 32 |
| 11 | Sporting Gijon | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -1 | 31 |
| 12 | Huesca | 24 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -1 | 31 |
| 13 | Villarreal II | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 28 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 19 | -3 | 31 |
| 14 | Real Oviedo | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 31 |
| 15 | Mirandes | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 28 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -1 | 30 |
| 16 | Tenerife | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 24 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -1 | 30 |
| 17 | Real Zaragoza | 24 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 14 | -1 | 29 |
| 18 | Racing Santander | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 12 | -5 | 25 |
| 19 | Ponferradina | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 31 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 17 | -9 | 25 |
| 20 | Malaga | 24 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 29 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 15 | -10 | 21 |
| 21 | Lugo | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 21 | -12 | 21 |
| 22 | UD Ibiza | 24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 37 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 21 | -22 | 16 |
