Racing Santander vs Elche

Match summary

Racing Santander won 3-2 at home to Elche. Racing Santander led 3-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Yassir Zabiri put Racing Santander ahead in the 15th minute, Zabiri made it 2-0 in the 21st minute, and Zabiri made it 3-0 in the 36th minute, set up by Iñigo Vicente. In the second half, Buba Sangaré pulled one back to make it 3-1 in the 78th minute, set up by Lucas Cepeda and Fernando Niño made it 3-2 with a header in the 79th minute, set up by Tete Morente.

The chances backed that up: Racing Santander created 2.56 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to Elche's 1.08 from 18.

Racing Santander secured a three-two victory against Elche in La Liga after a match that saw the visitors dominate territory and shot volume. Elche registered fifty-seven percent possession, one hundred and seventeen attacks, and eighteen total shots compared to thirteen for the hosts, who had forty percent possession. Despite the statistical advantage for Elche, Racing Santander generated a higher expected goals figure of two point five six to one point zero eight. The match featured thirty-six fouls in total, resulting in two yellow cards for the home team and one for the visitors, alongside five corners for Racing Santander and ten for Elche.

The opening half was entirely dominated by Yassir Zabiri, who scored with a left-footed shot in the fifteenth minute, added a second with another left-footed effort in the twenty-first minute, and completed a first-half hat-trick with a third left-footed strike in the thirty-sixth minute. Racing Santander received yellow cards through Facundo González in the forty-third minute and Álvaro Mantilla in the forty-fifth minute before half-time arrived with the score at three-zero. Following several second-half substitutions, Elche mounted a comeback when Buba Sangaré scored with a right-footed shot in the seventy-eighth minute and Fer Niño headed in a second goal in the seventy-ninth minute.