Real Valladolid come to Estadio Municipal de Anduva to play Mirandés on Saturday lunchtime in excellent form, having collected 16 points from their last six games.
The visitors have won five and drawn one of their last six fixtures, while Mirandés have two wins and two draws.
Valladolid are second in the table after 37 games, of which they have won 19 and drawn seven, earning 64 points.
Mirandés are 13 places behind the away team in 15th, with 11 wins and 11 draws putting them on 44 points.
With 45 goals in 37 games so far this season, Valladolid are scoring more than average in the league with 1.2 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in 31 goals at a rate of 0.8 per game.
The hosts are also above average scorers, with 1.2 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.1. They have conceded 1.4 goals per game.
In the last 10 years, Mirandés and Valladolid have played each other on 10 occasions. Mirandés won two of them, Valladolid six, and they drew twice.
On average, Mirandés scored 1.2 goals and Valladolid 1.9 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on October 8, when Valladolid won 3-2 at home.
In Carlos Martín, Mirandés have one of the league's most on-form strikers so far this season. He has notched 15 goals in 35 appearances, to sit fifth in the scoring charts.
His goal rate of one every 164 minutes is quicker than that of Mamadou Sylla Diallo, Valladolid's top scorer with a goal every 295 minutes, and a total of seven goals in 27 games.
Mirandés's last match was on Monday, a 2-0 win against Racing Club de Ferrol, with Lautaro De León Billar and Martín Domínguez getting the goals for Mirandés.
Valladolid beat SD Huesca 1-0 last time out, on Sunday, with Víctor Andrés Meseguer Cavas on the scoresheet.
Updated: 12:00 (UTC), 02/05/24