A victory to the home team is anticipated from this fixture if the league table is a way to look into the future. The Sporting Gijón followers are hopeful that the contrast between 6th and Elche's 17th position in the table will show on the playing field.
- Sporting Gijón have won all their matches at home so far.
- Elche have yet to win a game away.
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 Gijón and Elche.
Sporting Gijón form and stats
As mentioned below, Sporting Gijón are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 La Liga 2 games. There’s a good atmosphere here at Estadio Municipal El Molinón after three straight home wins.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Sporting Gijón, as their goalkeeper Orlando Ruben Yanez Alabart has completely shut out the opponents for 256 minutes in the La Liga 2.
Gijón are returning here after visiting Huesca and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Méndez scored the goal(s). Méndez (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.1/10. Méndez scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 53 successful passes (of 57 total).
A 0-0 draw away before that, with FC Andorra the opponent.This is expected to be a close game, with Sporting Gijón perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sporting Gijón as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Sporting Gijón has won 4 of these, drawn 2 and lost 7.
There will be little rest for Gijón after this match as they are travelling to Racing Santander for a La Liga 2 game in only three days.
Goals decide football matches and Sporting Gijón are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. From these home matches, Sporting Gijón have conceded only 2 goals.
Elche form and stats
The La Liga 2 season is young and Elche have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.
Elche have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 237 minutes ago. León was the goal scorer.
Elche delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Levante (placed 3rd) in their previous game. Defender Clerc was the best team player with a rating of 8.43. Clerc hit one key pass and won 14 of 17 duels.
Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Burgos's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Elche in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Elche, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
The attacking power of Elche when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away. For Elche, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Sporting Gijón have managed a streak of 4 consecutive games without losing (2-2-0) when facing Elche.Top Goalscorers
  G. Campos Ansó Fernández 2 goals |  J. Otero Tovar 2 goals |   S. León Limones 2 goals |
Sporting Gijón missing players
Elche missing players
| Sporting Gijón | Elche | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 62% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 38% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 38% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 5 | 7.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 3.7 | 5.4 |
| 6.1 | 5.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.7 | 4.6 |
| 2.6 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 13 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 11 | 16.9 |
| 3.1 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.3 | 3.9 |
| 32% | 54% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 29% | 16% |
| 11.2 | 11.7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 14 | 11.9 |
| 3.6 | 4.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.3 | 4.5 |
- All of Elche's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Sporting Gijón's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Elche have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Elche have yet to win a game away.
- Sporting Gijón have won all their matches at home so far.
- Sporting Gijón 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 | Leganés | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | Real Zaragoza | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 |
| 3 | Levante | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| 4 | Tenerife | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| 5 | Espanyol | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Sporting Gijón | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Real Valladolid | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | Racing Santander | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 9 | Racing Ferrol | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 10 | Eibar | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 12 |
| 11 | Albacete | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| 12 | Burgos | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 13 | Mirandes | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 14 | FC Andorra | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | Amorebieta | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| 16 | Villarreal II | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 17 | Elche | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 18 | Eldense | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 8 |
| 19 | Huesca | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
| 20 | Real Oviedo | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 21 | Alcorcon | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -8 | 6 |
| 22 | FC Cartagena | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
