Two teams near the bottom of the table, both showing improvement in recent matches.
Córdoba, in their last home game, drew 2-2 against Racing Santander (2nd), followed by a draw and a win against two bottom-half opponents.
I really like Cultural Leonesa since the arrival of their new coach. Ziganda is already making his mark on this team. In his first match in charge, they won 0-1 away at Valladolid (4th), with Cultural priced around 6. After that, they drew 0-0 at home against Albacete, who came in on a very good run.
Ziganda has managed to make the team more reliable defensively, and from a stronger defense, the team will slowly improve.
During the summer, the team made some good signings that had not yet been able to show much—now is when they can start to improve this team.
For today, I expect a very balanced match, so taking the away side has great value. I’m assuming more risk than usual, but a +0.5 or +1 handicap looks like a very good option, still at more than decent odds.