Real Unión v Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa

Real Unión face a challenge to maintain their high-scoring form at home against a tight Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa defence on Saturday.

With 42 goals in 34 games, Unión are the fourth-highest scorers in Primera Division RFEF Group 1 ahead of the 6pm kick-off at the Estadio Gal.

They face a Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa side who have scored 33 in 34 matches, but conceded only 24 goals, putting them third among the league's tightest defences – only Gimnàstic de Tarragona and SD Ponferradina have conceded fewer goals.

In Miguel Bañuz Antón, Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa can rely on one of the league's safest pair of hands. He has kept 13 clean sheets in his 25 appearances this season, and no 'keeper has prevented the opposition scoring more often in Primera Division RFEF Group 1.

In Unión's net, Jon Irazustabarrena Lizarralde has three clean sheets in 18 games. He has conceded a goal every 62 minutes, nearly three times as often as the 173 minutes between goals for Bañuz Antón.

The visitors are sixth in the table after 34 games, of which they have won 14 and drawn 13, earning 55 points.

The home side are seven places behind Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa in 13th, with 10 wins and nine draws putting them on 39 points.

In the last five years, Unión and Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa have played each other on five occasions. Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa won one of them and they drew the other.

On average, Unión scored 0.6 goals and Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa 1.0 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on December 2, when Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa won 2-0 at home.

Unión are in mixed form in Primera Division RFEF Group 1, with two wins and a draw from their last six games.

With three wins and two draws over that period, Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa's form is better – they have taken 11 points from 18, compared to Unión's seven.

Unión's last match was on April 27, a 2-1 loss against Osasuna B, with Asier Benito Sasiain getting the goal for Unión.

Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa beat Gimnàstic de Tarragona 3-0 last time out, on Sunday, with Alberto González García, Diego Hernández Barriuso and Guillermo Fernández Hierro on the scoresheet.