La Liga 2 preview: Can Real Zaragoza edge out victory against Villarreal II?

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Competition: Spain La Liga 2
Competition: Sat 15.October
Match begins: 14:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio de la Romareda (34596 seats)

Stadium regulars at Estadio de la Romareda haven’t witnessed many home wins this season, with Real Zaragoza withering away in the 19th place. The visiting Villarreal II will hope to guard their higher league spot in this game.

Insights:
  • Real Zaragoza have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Villarreal II have the most scored goals (15) in La Liga 2

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Real Zaragoza and Villarreal II.

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Real Zaragoza form and stats

The story so far in the La Liga 2 for Real Zaragoza at their home stadium (Estadio de la Romareda) is 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat. Two draws in a row at home now for Zaragoza.

Real Zaragoza lost their last game at Racing Santander (placed 14th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Álvarez had a busy but productive day in the Racing Santander match. Despite making nine saves the loss could not be prevented.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Real Oviedo.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Zaragoza handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 6 draws and 3 defeats.

Trench warfare? Looking at this club's last 10 league games, 8 have produced two goals or less.

Real Zaragoza have scored {3 league goals} here from 5 matches, not a lot. Real Zaragoza are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio de la Romareda in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 5 matches.

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Villarreal II form and stats

1-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Villarreal II in their La Liga 2 matches away.

Villarreal's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Ponferradina that finished 2-2. García got a match rating of 8.75 in that game, top player of the team. García scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 50 successful passes (of 59 total).

Preceding that game, the 1-3 loss visiting Sporting Gijon's place.

Villarreal II are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

The Villarreal manager Jurado has some worries about the defense as 11 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Real ZaragozaG. Simeone
G. Simeone
3 goals
Villarreal IIS. Lozano Lluch
S. Lozano Lluch
3 goals
Villarreal IIP. Íñiguez de Heredia Larraz
P. Íñiguez de Heredia Larraz
2 goals

Real Zaragoza missing players

Villarreal II missing players

Real Zaragoza Villarreal II
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 0 Played P 2 5 10
2 1 0 Won W 0 1 3
4 3 0 Drew D 1 1 4
4 1 0 Lost L 1 3 3
5 3 0 Scored S 2 5 15
8 3 0 Conceded C 5 11 16
70% 60% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
40% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
20% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 70%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 10%
30% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 60%
40% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
60% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 20%
 
5.8 7.2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.4
3.9 3.2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.8 3.6
2.5 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.2 2.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.1 11.8 0 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 10.2 12.6
3.6 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.6 4.4
14% 15% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 38% 34%
 
11.1 9.6 0 Shots against (avg) S A 13 10.2 10.6
3.6 2.2 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.6 4.1
Key stats in La Liga 2 this season:
  • All of Villarreal II's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Real Zaragoza have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Real Zaragoza have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Villarreal II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Villarreal II have scored more than double the goals of Real Zaragoza.
  • Villarreal II have the most conceded goals (11) away in La Liga 2
  • Villarreal II have the most scored goals (15) in La Liga 2
  • Villarreal II have the most scored goals in the second half (10) in La Liga 2
  • Villarreal II have the the worst goal difference (-6) away in La Liga 2
  • Villarreal II 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 Las Palmas 10 5 5 0 14 4 5 3 2 0 5 0 5 2 3 0 9 4 10 20
2 Deportivo Alavés 10 5 4 1 13 10 5 3 2 0 7 3 5 2 2 1 6 7 3 19
3 Burgos 10 4 6 0 6 0 5 3 2 0 5 0 5 1 4 0 1 0 6 18
4 FC Cartagena 10 5 2 3 14 11 5 2 1 2 7 7 5 3 1 1 7 4 3 17
5 Albacete 10 4 4 2 11 9 5 1 3 1 4 4 5 3 1 1 7 5 2 16
6 Sporting Gijon 9 4 3 2 14 9 5 3 1 1 9 5 4 1 2 1 5 4 5 15
7 Eibar 9 4 3 2 12 8 5 4 1 0 9 2 4 0 2 2 3 6 4 15
8 Huesca 10 4 3 3 11 8 5 3 1 1 8 4 5 1 2 2 3 4 3 15
9 FC Andorra 10 4 3 3 10 10 4 3 0 1 6 2 6 1 3 2 4 8 0 15
10 Granada 9 4 2 3 9 8 4 3 1 0 7 1 5 1 1 3 2 7 1 14
11 Villarreal II 10 3 4 3 15 16 5 2 3 0 10 5 5 1 1 3 5 11 -1 13
12 Ponferradina 10 3 3 4 13 16 5 1 2 2 6 8 5 2 1 2 7 8 -3 12
13 Tenerife 10 2 5 3 10 11 5 2 3 0 6 3 5 0 2 3 4 8 -1 11
14 Racing Santander 10 3 2 5 5 8 5 1 2 2 1 3 5 2 0 3 4 5 -3 11
15 UD Ibiza 9 3 2 4 8 12 4 2 1 1 5 5 5 1 1 3 3 7 -4 11
16 Levante 9 2 4 3 8 7 5 2 1 2 6 3 4 0 3 1 2 4 1 10
17 Leganes 10 3 1 6 7 10 5 2 1 2 5 5 5 1 0 4 2 5 -3 10
18 Real Oviedo 10 2 4 4 5 8 6 1 1 4 3 7 4 1 3 0 2 1 -3 10
19 Real Zaragoza 10 2 4 4 5 8 5 1 3 1 3 3 5 1 1 3 2 5 -3 10
20 Lugo 10 2 3 5 10 14 5 1 1 3 3 5 5 1 2 2 7 9 -4 9
21 Mirandes 9 1 4 4 9 14 5 1 3 1 8 8 4 0 1 3 1 6 -5 7
22 Malaga 10 1 3 6 6 14 4 0 2 2 2 7 6 1 1 4 4 7 -8 6

Read more about La Liga 2

The Segunda División, also known as La Liga 2, is the second highest level of the football league pyramid in Spain. 22 teams play each other home and away for a 42 match season. Top two of the league table earns promotion and one more is promoted through playoff fixtures. The bottom four are relegated.