Real Oviedo v FC Cartagena
Segunda División | Estadio Nuevo Carlos Tartiere
Monday, 13 November 2023 @ 8.00pm
Real Oviedo face FC Cartagena on Monday seeking to protect their long unbeaten run in the Segunda División.
Real Oviedo are unbeaten in seven, with four wins and three draws, ahead of the 8pm kick-off.
They face a Cartagena team who have drawn three and lost four over the same number of games.
Cartagena are bottom of the table after 14 games, of which they have won one and drawn three, earning six points.
Oviedo are nine places ahead of FC Cartagena in 13th, with four wins and six draws putting them on 18 points.
With Leo Román between the sticks, Real Oviedo can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept seven clean sheets in his 14 appearances this season, and only one other 'keeper – Leganés' Diego Conde – has been able to prevent the opposition scoring on more occasions in the Segunda División.
In the away team's net, Marc Martínez Aranda has one clean sheet in 12 games. He has conceded a goal every 77 minutes, nearly three times as often as the 210 minutes between goals for Román Riquelme.
Over the last two years, Oviedo and Cartagena have played each other on three occasions. Oviedo won one of them and Cartagena the other.
Their last meeting was on February 17, when Cartagena won 2-1 at home.
With 11 goals in 14 games so far this season, the hosts are the league's joint-third-lowest scorers with 0.8 goals per game. But they are conceding fewer than average too, letting in seven goals at a rate of 0.5 per game.
Cartagena are also below average scorers, with 0.8 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.2. They have conceded 1.7 goals per game.
Oviedo's last match was on November 6, a 0-0 draw against Real Zaragoza.
Cartagena lost 3-0 against Leganés last time out, on November 5.