Leganés v Racing Club de Ferrol
Segunda División | Estadio Municipal de Butarque
Sunday, 26 November 2023 @ 1.00pm
Leganés are on an excellent run ahead of hosting Racing Club de Ferrol at Estadio Municipal de Butarque on Sunday, with 16 points collected from their last six games.
Leganés have picked up five wins and one draw in their last six Segunda División games, and face a Racing Club de Ferrol side whose last six games have brought three wins and two draws.
Leganés are top of the table after 16 games, of which they have won 11 and drawn two, earning 35 points.
Racing are five places behind the hosts in sixth, with seven wins and six draws putting them on 27 points.
With 26 goals in 16 games so far this season, Leganés are scoring more than average in the league with 1.6 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in seven goals at a rate of 0.4 per game.
Ferrol, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 1.1 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.2. They have conceded 0.9 goals per game.
With Diego Conde between the sticks, Leganés can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept eight clean sheets in his 14 appearances this season, and no 'keeper has prevented the opposition scoring more often in the Segunda División.
In Racing Club de Ferrol's net, Ander Cantero Armendáriz has five clean sheets in 16 games. He has conceded a goal every 111 minutes, more than twice as often as the 236 minutes between goals for Conde Alcolado.
Leganés' last match was on November 17, a 1-1 draw against Real Valladolid, with Sergio González Poirrier getting the goal for Leganés.
Racing drew 1-1 with Burgos CF last time out, on November 19, with Álvaro Giménez on the scoresheet.