Numancia take on the visitors Sporting de Gijon at the Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos in the 1/64-finals fixture of the Copa del Rey. The match will be played in Soria on Thursday, September 13th.
Last season Numancia placed sixth in the Segunda Division with 65 points to their credit. The Numantinos have had five friendly matches this summer, they have won two of them (over Huesca with a 5-1 score and over Alaves with a 3-1 score), have drawn one (against Burgos with a 1-1 score) and have lost two (to Logrones with a 0-1 score and to Real Madrid B with a 0-2 score). In the first tour of the 2018/2019 Segunda Division season the team of Artiz Lopez Garai drew against Cordoba with a 3-3 score. In th3 second tour they drew against Cadiz with a 1-1 score. In the third tour the Rojillos lost to Lugo with a 1-2 score. In the fourth tour Numancia beat Elche with a`1-0 score
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Sporting de Gijon finished last season on the fourth place in the Segunda Division with 71 points to their credit. The Rojiblancos have had seven friendly matches this summer, they have won four of them (over Lealtad with a 2-1 score, over Sestao with a 5-0 score, over Langreo with a 2-0 score, over Leonesa with a 1-0 score) and have drawn three (against Pontevedra with a 1-1 score, against Chaves with a 0-0 score against Getafe with the same 0-0 score). In the first tour of the 2018/2019 Segunda Division season Sporting de Gijon drew against Alcorcon with a 1-1 score. In the second tour they beat Gimnastic de Tarragona with a 2-0 score. In the third tour the team of Ruben Baraja beat Extremadura with a 2-0 score. In the fourth tour the Rojiblancos lost to Deportivo La Coruna with a 0-1 score.
Numancia and Sporting de Gijon have already faced each other in 2018, the Rojiblancos have beaten the Numantinos with a 2-0 score in the 26th tour of the 2017/2018 Segunda Division season. It is likely that the teams will score only a few goals in the upcoming fixture too.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.0 goals scored.
