Sporting de Gijon welcome the visitors Zaragoza in the Spanish La Liga 2 – Round 20. The match will be held on Saturday, January 5th, at the Estadio El Molinon (Gijon).
Sporting de Gijon taste no defeat in 5 latest rounds, featuring 3 wins and 2 draws. Even the leading Granada are in the list of their losing opponents. This victorious run enabled the hosts to climb the table up to the 9th line, and now their breakaway from the 6th place is 6 points. The 6th tier provides for playoff knockouts to progress to Primeira from where Sporting dropped out 2 seasons back.
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Zaragoza managed to gain a home win in the last round, that was a win over the 20th Estremadura though. The 3 attained points helped the team to leave the relegation zone – now they sit 17th in the standings, with a 2-point breakaway from the drop spots. Zaragoza’s present performance, however, is not very promising – the team may be back to the bottom-four yet after the coming Saturday clash with Sporting. Prior to the last round win mentioned above, the guests racked up only 2 points in 5 games. They registered only 4 wins in 19 rounds thus far.
Only the opponents’ head-to-heads’ record favors Zaragoza. They lost just once on the Sporting’s soil in 6 previous encounters indeed. However, firstly, they did lose; secondly, the present situation is that Sporting are kicking into gear now, and Zaragoza are down; thirdly, Sporting featured 5 home wins of 9 and never lost in front of their own fans in this campaign, while Zaragoza conceded in 5 of 9 outings, losing in the last 2 ones. Finally, the record really needs to be taken into account, but these are teams who play, not the record, and the hosting side look more advantageous than the guests, going by the present tally.
Prediction for the match: Sporting de Gijon to win home.
