Mirandés v Racing Santander
Segunda División | Estadio Municipal de Anduva
Sunday, 3 December 2023 @ 5.30pm
Racing Santander travel to Mirandés on late Sunday in the Segunda División.
The visitors come into the game on the back of a win in their last match, having beaten Villarreal B 2-0 at home, with goals from Lago Junior and Gerard Fernández Castellano.
Mirandés also won their last match, 2-1 against Real Oviedo, with their goals scored by Ilyas Chaira and Javier Martón.
With 29 goals in 17 games so far this season, Racing are the league's joint-second-highest scorers with 1.7 goals per game. But they are conceding more than average too, letting in 24 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.
Mirandés are also above average scorers, with 1.6 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.2. They have also conceded 1.6 goals per game.
In Fernández Castellano, Racing Santander have one of the league's sharpest shooters so far this season. He has notched eight goals in 16 appearances, to sit second in the scoring charts.
His goal rate of one every 126 minutes is quicker than that of Carlos Martín, the home side's top scorer with a goal every 183 minutes, and a total of six goals in 15 games.
In the last 10 years, Mirandés and Racing have played each other on 11 occasions. Mirandés won three of them, Racing five, and they drew three times.
On average, Mirandés scored 0.8 goals and Racing Santander 1.4 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on May 6, when they played out a 1-1 draw.
The visitors are seventh in the table after 17 games, of which they have won eight and drawn three, earning 27 points.
Mirandés are seven places behind Racing in 14th, with six wins and four draws putting them on 22 points.
Mirandés are in reasonable form in the Segunda División, with three wins and two draws from their last six games.
With three wins and three losses over that period, Racing's form is slightly worse – they have taken nine points from 18, compared to the hosts' 11.