Our prediction for this Segunda Division match:
Gijon
Match Time & Date:
20/02/2022
18:15
Prediction: 1-0
Ponferradina
Estadio El Molinon will host Sunday’s Segunda Division game between Sporting Gijon and Ponferradina. Los Rojiblancos are not enjoying a season to remember, with the team sitting in 13th place in the standings ahead of the visit of Ponferradina. Sporting, though, gave fans some cheer at the weekend as they rolled over Mirandes 3-0 on the road. Los Rojiblancos aim to keep their playoffs hopes alive, and they are likely to rely on Serbia-born striker Uros Djurdjevic, who scored his 8th goal of the season against Mirandes.
Defender Guille Rosas remains on the sidelines with injury. La Ponfe, on the other hand, aim to build on a 3-2 win over Real Sociedad B. Ponferradina, though, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in their last away game, with the team losing to Girona 3-0, and they are unlikely to spoil Sporting Gijon’s party at “El Molinon”.
Highlighted Player (Diego Marino):
Diego Marino is a Spanish goalkeeper who plays for Sporting Gijon. The 185-cm-tall shoot-stopper was born on 9 May, 1990 in Vigo and he played for the likes of Santa Marina, Rapido Bouzas, Sardoma, Areosa and Villarreal during his youth career. Between 2008 and 2010 he played for Villarreal C and in 2010 he started playing for Villarreal B.
Marino made 72 appearances for Villarreal B and in 2012 he joined the first team. He was not Villarreal’s first-choice goalkeeper in the 2012/2013 campaign and he made no more than nine appearances for the Yellow Submarine. In the 2015/2016 season he played for Levante, but following their relegation to Segunda Division, Diego Marino decided to sign a deal with Sporting Gijon on 1 July, 2016.
The goalkeeper has 6 caps for Spain U-21, while playing 3 games for Spain U23. It has to be noted that he won UEFA U-21 Championships in 2011 and 2013 with La Furia Roja. Back in 2007 he made it to the FIFA U-17 World Cup final with the Spanish national team.
Highlighted Team (Ponferradina):
SD Ponferradina is a professional Spanish club based in the El Bierzo region. Founded on June 7, 1922, la Ponfe compete in Segunda Division, with the team welcoming their rivals at Estadio el Toralin. The venue is pretty small, holding up to 8,400 spectators, and it was opened in September 2000.
Ponderradina’s main rivals are Deportivo Leonesa, with the two clubs facing each other in the Province of Leon derby. La Ponfe are well known for their white jerseys with blue strips. In the 2010/11 season Ponferradina did well to win the Castilla y Leon Cup, with the team beating UD Salamanca in the title game.
The likes of Jonathan Ruiz, Oscar De Paula, Samuel Camille, William Jebor, Yuri, Lucas Dominguez, Francisco Prieto, Nabil Baha, and Dmytro Khomchenovskyi are the notable footballers who played for the club in the past. Each of one them made 100 or more appearances in the league for Ponferradina.
