Malaga vs Sporting Gijon Betting Tips and Predictions 

These are worrying times for Sporting Gijon fans. Their team competed admirably for the first half of the season and impressed many with their surprisingly attacking philosophy which yielded some good results. However in the last few weeks they have began to look increasingly out of their depth at this level.  They’ve taken just 1 point from their last 5 Primera Division games and 9 of their last 14 matches have ended in defeat. Recent losses against relegation rivals Espanyol and Granada have been particularly damaging and they find themselves in 19th place but would move out of the drop-zone with a win here.

That will be tough though even though Malaga aren’t in great form either. They are winless in 5 but have had a tough run of games and points at home to Real Madrid and away against Deportivo and Real Sociedad have kept their tally ticking along towards safety. They are in 12th place, 7 points above the relegation zone and victory here would mean they would have little to worry about over the coming weeks with a safe mid-table finish most likely.

Malaga’s home form has been a bit mixed but they’ve won 5 of their last 10 at La Rosaleda in the league seeing off the likes of Atletico Madrid, Celta Vigo and Deportivo La Coruna during that period so they will approach this with confidence. Sporting have been really poor at the back lately and have conceded 14 goals in their last 6 matches. They’ve lost all of their last 3 games by 2 or more goals and this is probably going to be a tougher game than those ones so backing Malaga -1.0 Asian Handicap at 1.925 looks an attractive punt here.