Evenly matched teams: Badalona vs Gimnàstic Tarragona match preview

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Competition: Spain Segunda B - Group 3
Competition: Sun 24.January
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadi Municipal de Badalona (4170 seats)

Badalona will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Gimnàstic Tarragona.

Insights:
  • Badalona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona has the most scored goals (23) in Segunda B - Group 3

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

2 - 3 - 2 with 9-7. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Gimnàstic Tarragona when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Gimnàstic Tarragona play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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Badalona form and stats

Overall Segunda B - Group 3 stats at home this season for Badalona are 2-1-2 (wins-draw-losses).

A strong away win for Badalona against L'Hospitalet the last match. A 1-1 draw away before that, with FC Andorra the opponent.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Badalona have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won five, drawn three and lost six.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Badalona here at Estadi Municipal de Badalona in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). Badalona have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Gimnàstic Tarragona form and stats

As the visiting team in Segunda B - Group 3 matches, Gimnàstic Tarragona, who have the most scored goals (23) in Segunda B - Group 3, have produced an overall stat of 0-3-1 so far. Things are running smoothly for Gimnàstic who hasn't tasted defeat in their last ten matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Barcelona II. It's three draws from Gimnàstic Tarragona's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.

Impressive finishing secured the home win 3-1 against Barcelona II in their previous game. Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Cornellà.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Gimnàstic in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Gimnàstic Tarragona, two draws and six defeats.

Gimnàstic Tarragona have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 4 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Gimnàstic have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Gimnàstic Tarragona - Badalona 0-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's one Badalona victory, four draws and one Gimnàstic Tarragona win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Gimnàstic TarragonaR. Brugué Ayguadé
R. Brugué Ayguadé
5 goals
BadalonaR. Simón Rodríguez
R. Simón Rodríguez
4 goals
Gimnàstic TarragonaP. Ballesteros Ferrer
P. Ballesteros Ferrer
4 goals

Badalona missing players

Gimnàstic Tarragona missing players

Badalona Gimnàstic Tarragona
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 5 0 Played P 1 4 11
4 2 0 Won W 0 0 5
4 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
3 2 0 Lost L 0 1 1
9 4 0 Scored S 2 4 23
9 3 0 Conceded C 2 5 10
82% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 91%
55% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 82%
18% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 25% 55%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 25% 45%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
18% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 55%
55% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 36%
45% 60% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 18%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.9 3.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2.9
3 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
6.6 7.6 0 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.8 9.5
2.5 2.6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.8 4.2
32% 31% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 36% 50%
Key stats in Segunda B - Group 3 this season:
  • Badalona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Segunda B - Group 3
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona has the most scored goals (23) in Segunda B - Group 3
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona has the most scored goals in the second half (17) in Segunda B - Group 3
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona has the the best goal difference (+13) in Segunda B - Group 3
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona have scored more than double the goals of Badalona.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona have yet to win a game away.
  • Gimnàstic Tarragona 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 Gimnàstic Tarragona 11 5 5 1 23 10 7 5 2 0 19 5 4 0 3 1 4 5 13 20
2 FC Andorra 11 5 4 2 13 10 6 4 2 0 8 3 5 1 2 2 5 7 3 19
3 Barcelona II 11 5 1 5 12 11 5 4 1 0 9 2 6 1 0 5 3 9 1 16
4 Badalona 11 4 4 3 9 9 5 2 1 2 4 3 6 2 3 1 5 6 0 16
5 L'Hospitalet 11 5 1 5 13 15 6 4 0 2 10 7 5 1 1 3 3 8 -2 16
6 Llagostera-Costa Brava 11 3 5 3 6 8 5 2 3 0 5 2 6 1 2 3 1 6 -2 14
7 Lleida Esportiu 10 4 1 5 15 14 4 2 1 1 6 5 6 2 0 4 9 9 1 13
8 Cornellà 11 3 4 4 13 14 5 2 2 1 6 3 6 1 2 3 7 11 -1 13
9 Espanyol II 11 3 4 4 11 14 4 2 1 1 5 5 7 1 3 3 6 9 -3 13
10 Olot 11 2 5 4 11 17 6 2 4 0 9 7 5 0 1 4 2 10 -6 11
11 Prat 11 2 4 5 5 9 7 2 2 3 3 5 4 0 2 2 2 4 -4 10

Read more about Segunda B - Group 3

Segunda División B is the third level of the Spanish football league system. It is divided into four groups of 20 teams each. Each group plays 380 fixtures to decide the final league table. Team squads are regulated to ensure that youth players (below 23 years old) are given a chance.