Match report
Eldense storm back to thrash Oviedo 4-1 at Nuevo Pepico Amat
Eldense produced a remarkable turnaround to beat Oviedo 4-1 in Segunda División matchday 8, overturning a first-minute deficit with four unanswered goals. The five-goal contest at Nuevo Pepico Amat swung entirely in the hosts' favour after the break, despite Oviedo leading at half-time.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Alberto Reina put the visitors ahead inside the opening minute, finishing from David Jiménez's pass to stun the home crowd early. Eldense went in at the interval still behind, but the hosts transformed the match after the restart. Roberto López levelled from the spot in the 56th minute, before Fidel added a second penalty conversion in the 68th to turn the game on its head.
With Oviedo chasing an equaliser, Eldense punished them further. Aingeru Olabarrieta, set up by Marcos Bustillo, struck in the 90th minute to make it 3-1, and Jorge Rastrojo completed the rout deep into stoppage time to seal a 4-1 victory that lifted Eldense off the bottom of the form charts despite their lowly league position.
Roberto López struck the equalising penalty in the 56th minute and earned the night's highest rating of 7.8, helping spark Eldense's second-half surge.
Eldense's 9 shots on target to Oviedo's 4 underlined how clinical the hosts were once they found their rhythm after half-time.
Eldense beat Oviedo 4–1 (half-time 0–1).
Eldense met Oviedo in the Segunda División (Regular Season - 8). Kick-off was Friday, 2 October 2026, 18:30 UTC at Estadio Nuevo Pepico Amat. Referee: Rafael Sánchez.
Team pages: Eldense · Oviedo · Segunda División
Key moments
- 1' Goal: Alberto Reina (assist: David Jiménez) — 0–1
- 56' Goal (penalty): Roberto López — 1–1
- 68' Goal (penalty): Fidel — 2–1
- 90' Goal: Aingeru Olabarrieta (assist: Marcos Bustillo) — 3–1
- 90+5' Goal: Jorge Rastrojo — 4–1
Starting line-ups
Eldense (4-2-3-1)
- 1 Ramón Vila
- 2 Iker Recio
- 4 Floris Smand
- 5 Alex Serradell
- 19 A. Ibarrondo
- 18 Guillermo Macho
- 15 Carlos Guirao
- 20 Waldo Rubio
- 24 Javi Martínez
- 10 Fidel (c)
- 11 Manu Nieto
Oviedo (4-3-1-2)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Eldense 29%, the draw 30%, Oviedo 41%. It finished Eldense 4–1 Oviedo.
Oviedo's rating edge, but the draw is in play — Oviedo are the stronger side on our strength rating, and their cold finishing due to recover on top gives Oviedo the lean. The draw at 30% is lifted by a low-scoring environment.
Why Oviedo at 41%?
Oviedo sit 149 points higher on our strength rating — 1393 to 1542. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge on the road won 40.0% of 13,727 such games. Oviedo sit -0.70 goals per game below chance-quality — cold streaks like this have bounced back. Finishing swings carry a receipt at this rating gap too: sides finishing this cold won 38.4% of 2,497 such games where the class table expected 35.8%. The 300 most similar past games finished 30–28–42.
Why only 41%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 41% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 30% and Eldense at 29%.
Why is the draw second, ahead of the Eldense win?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.6%. These teams' recent games average 2.0 goals — a low-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 28.2% of 18,716. The goals environment adds 3.1 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Eldense are newly promoted — game 8 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides are said to struggle, but our rating already carries most of it: across 3,012 first-ten games since 2016 they won 26.8% where the rating expected 28.1% — inside the noise band, below it in six of the ten full seasons we hold and about level last season. Eldense are 2 games into a new manager (Javi Calleja), appointed 13 days ago. The famous new-manager bounce doesn't survive its receipt: sides with a new manager beat their rating by 0.9 points over 33,420 games — but sides on an equally bad run who kept their manager beat it by 2.4 over 31,777. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
On this page: the Eldense vs Oviedo final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Segunda División fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
- Starting lineups and player ratings for both teams.
- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
Watch the goals: goal highlights and video clips of every goal from Eldense 4–1 Oviedo. Explore more on the Eldense and Oviedo team pages or the Segunda División page.