📊 Form Guide

Albacete

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Albacete, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 3-2 Copa del Rey triumph over Real Madrid.

In that game, Albacete had 22% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Albacete, goals were scored by Villar (42') and Betancor (82', 94'). At the other end, Real Madrid had 20 shots on goal with 5 on target. Franco Mastantuono (45') and García (91') scored for Real Madrid.

Albacete have been conceding pretty frequently of late, although they have also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Albacete have conceded in 5 of them in addition to getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games. Historical results aside, time will tell if such a trend might continue on in this game or not.

Going into this one, Albacete haven’t won at home in the past 3 league matches.

Cádiz

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Cádiz will go into the meeting after a 3-2 La Liga 2 win with the defeat of Sporting Gijón in their last fixture.

In that game, Cádiz had 39% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Cádiz, goals were scored by García (11'), Brian Ocampo (53') and Iuri Tabatadze (72'). For their opponents, Sporting Gijon got 24 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Jonathan Dubasin (82') and Campos (93') scored for Sporting Gijón.

Looking at their form, and Cádiz have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals overall. At the back, Cádiz have seen their frailties exposed.

A look at their previous results shows us that Cádiz:

• have not beaten Albacete in away games against them for the last 4 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels stretching back to 25/10/2019, there has been little between the sides with Albacete winning 3 of those games, Cádiz 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

A total of 10 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 of them from Queso Mecánico and 4 created by Submarino amarillo. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.67.

The last league match between these sides was La Liga 2 match day 3 on 31/08/2025 and the score finished Cádiz 2-1 Albacete.

In that match, Cádiz had 52% possession and 7 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorers were Brian Ocampo (45') and Iuri Tabatadze (92').

On the other side, Albacete had 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Puertas (59') was the scorer.

The referee was Miguel González Díaz.

📰 Team News: Albacete

We think that Queso Mecánico may well opt for a 4-4-2 formation for the game with Diego Marino, Fran Gámez, Jesús Vallejo, Carlos Neva, Jonathan Gómez, José Carlos Lazo, Riki Rodríguez, Alejandro Meléndez, Victor Valverde, Agus Medina and J. Betancor Sánchez.

📰 Team News: Cádiz

We are inclined to think that Submarino amarillo could decide to play in a 4-4-2 formation using Victor Aznar, I. Carcelen Valencia, Jorge Moreno, Iker Recio, Mario Climent, J. Antonio de, Yussi Diarra, Sergio Ortuño, Brian Ocampo, Dawda Camara and Á. García Pascual.

🔮 Prediction

We envisage that Cádiz are capable enough to find the back of the net against this Albacete side, however it isn’t expected to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We are anticipating a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Albacete at the end of the match. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 17:02 18/01/2026