Cádiz vs Espanyol: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Spain La Liga
Competition: Sun 09.October
Match begins: 14:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla (2000 seats)

Crucial duel in the "wrong" end of the La Liga, with both Cádiz and Espanyol enduring more concern than pleasure. This game is a real "six-pointer" with the host team placed 19th and the away side in 16th position.

Insights:
  • Cádiz have the fewest scored goals (1) in La Liga
  • Espanyol have scored more than double the goals of Cádiz.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Espanyol, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.

Cádiz and Espanyol should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Cádiz form and stats

The story so far in the La Liga for Cádiz at their home stadium (Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla) is 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jeremias Ledesma not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Cádiz, who played 0-0 against Villarreal. That match was also played at this venue (Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla). Cádiz's goalie Ledesma played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against Villarreal with a stunning seven saves. Goalkeeper Ledesma got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.62 out of ten. Ledesma topped it up with a clean sheet.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Real Valladolid and winning 1-0.

Betting heads-up: This club have finished 7 league games in a row with only one (or none) club finding the net.

Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Cádiz with 9 goals conceded in these matches.

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Espanyol form and stats

Espanyol are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the La Liga, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

Espanyol delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Valencia (placed 9th) in their previous match. Midfielder Darder was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.13. Darder scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Real Sociedad's place.

Espanyol have scored 4 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Espanyol have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (Cádiz wins - draws - Espanyol wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

EspanyolJ. Sanmartín Mato
J. Sanmartín Mato
4 goals
EspanyolE. Expósito Jaén
E. Expósito Jaén
2 goals
EspanyolM. Braithwaite
M. Braithwaite
2 goals

Cádiz missing players

Espanyol missing players

Cádiz Espanyol
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 4 0 Played P 0 3 7
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 1
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
5 3 0 Lost L 0 1 4
1 0 0 Scored S 0 4 9
14 9 0 Conceded C 0 4 14
86% 75% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
57% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 86%
43% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 71%
29% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 57%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 71%
29% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 14%
86% 100% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 14%
 
2.9 3.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.3 5.4
5 5.8 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3.7 3.9
2.7 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.3 1.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
8.1 8.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12.3 13.4
1.7 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3 3.1
8% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 41%
 
16.3 17.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12.7 12.9
6.4 7.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 4.7
Key stats in La Liga this season:
  • Cádiz have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cádiz have failed to score a single goal at home.
  • Cádiz have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cádiz have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in La Liga
  • Cádiz have the fewest scored goals (1) in La Liga
  • Cádiz have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in La Liga
  • Cádiz have the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in La Liga
  • Cádiz have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in La Liga
  • Cádiz have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Cádiz have yet to win a game at home.
  • Espanyol have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Espanyol have scored more than double the goals of Cádiz.
  • Espanyol have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Espanyol haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Barcelona 7 6 1 0 19 1 3 2 1 0 7 0 4 4 0 0 12 1 18 19
2 Real Madrid 7 6 1 0 18 7 3 2 1 0 7 3 4 4 0 0 11 4 11 19
3 Athletic Club 7 5 1 1 16 4 5 3 1 1 8 3 2 2 0 0 8 1 12 16
4 Real Betis 7 5 0 2 10 5 4 4 0 0 7 1 3 1 0 2 3 4 5 15
5 Atletico Madrid 7 4 1 2 12 6 3 1 0 2 5 5 4 3 1 0 7 1 6 13
6 Osasuna 7 4 1 2 8 6 4 3 0 1 6 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 13
7 Real Sociedad 7 4 1 2 12 11 3 1 1 1 4 6 4 3 0 1 8 5 1 13
8 Villarreal 7 3 3 1 10 2 2 1 1 0 5 1 5 2 2 1 5 1 8 12
9 Valencia 7 3 1 3 12 7 4 3 0 1 9 2 3 0 1 2 3 5 5 10
10 Celta de Vigo 7 3 1 3 9 13 4 2 1 1 7 6 3 1 0 2 2 7 -4 10
11 Mallorca 7 2 2 3 6 8 4 1 1 2 3 4 3 1 1 1 3 4 -2 8
12 Rayo Vallecano 6 2 1 3 7 8 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 5 5 -1 7
13 Girona 7 2 1 4 10 12 4 2 0 2 8 8 3 0 1 2 2 4 -2 7
14 Getafe 7 2 1 4 8 15 4 1 1 2 4 7 3 1 0 2 4 8 -7 7
15 Real Valladolid 7 2 1 4 6 13 3 1 0 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 5 9 -7 7
16 Espanyol 7 1 2 4 9 14 4 0 1 3 5 10 3 1 1 1 4 4 -5 5
17 Sevilla 7 1 2 4 7 13 3 0 1 2 1 6 4 1 1 2 6 7 -6 5
18 Almeria 7 1 1 5 4 11 3 1 0 2 3 4 4 0 1 3 1 7 -7 4
19 Cádiz 7 1 1 5 1 14 4 0 1 3 0 9 3 1 0 2 1 5 -13 4
20 Elche 6 0 1 5 2 16 3 0 1 2 2 6 3 0 0 3 0 10 -14 1

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