Sporting Gijon vs Albacete Balompie
Match details. Sporting Gijon host Albacete Balompie in LaLiga 2, Regular Season - 10 at El Molinón-Enrique Castro Quini, Gijon. Kick-off is Sat 17 Oct at 17:30 Lagos time. Morilla Turrion is the referee.
What's at stake. Sporting Gijon are 6th on 16 points after 9 games, level on points with Sabadell and 1 point clear of Girona. A win would take them above Sabadell. Albacete Balompie are 22nd on 1 point after 9 games, 4 points behind AD Ceuta FC.
Form. Sporting Gijon have won five, drawn one and lost three of their last nine, taking 1.8 points a game. Their last five read W W L W L, and in this competition they have gone W W L W L L. Albacete Balompie have won none, drawn one and lost eight of their last nine, taking 0.1 points a game. Their last five read L L L L D, going L L L L D L in this competition.
The numbers. Sporting Gijon score 0.8 and concede one a game in their last five at home, with two clean sheets and three games without a goal. They average 11.4 shots (3.6 on target), 4.1 corners and 3.2 cards a game, with 49% of the ball. Albacete Balompie score 0.4 and concede 2.4 a game in their last five away, with no clean sheets and three games without a goal. They average 13.0 shots (4.0 on target), 5.1 corners and 2.4 cards a game, with 49% of the ball.
Head to head. In the last ten meetings Sporting Gijon have won three, drawn four and lost three. Six of the ten went over 2.5 goals and both teams scored in seven. In the last four, two were drawn and Albacete Balompie won two. The last time they met, on 15 Feb 2026, it finished Sporting Gijon 1-1 Albacete Balompie, with Sporting Gijon taking 9 shots to 9, holding 57% of the ball and picking up one yellow card.
Where it pulls both ways. On goals, their goals for and against point to a tight game. Their records put over 2.5 goals at 41%, though six of the last ten meetings went over 2.5.
The case against. Albacete Balompie's record still gives them 22% to win for me.
The read. Sporting Gijon to win. Their goals for and against make Sporting Gijon the likelier winners. Sporting Gijon are the stronger side on form and the table. Both teams' records favour Sporting Gijon.
The bets. No bet yet: nothing I'd back is priced yet. Leave: Sporting Gijon Over 0.5 goals (Sporting Gijon's own games don't back it (2 of 5)). Predicted score: Sporting Gijon 1-0 Albacete Balompie (11% chance).
Every score's chance from both teams' checked games, never cut or rescaled. The lit square is the likeliest score that fits the read (the call).