Almería 3-1 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Friday 27 January 2023
Result
Almería 3-1 Espanyol
La Liga · Friday 27 January 2023, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Almería 3-1 Espanyol: match report
Almería beat Espanyol 3-1 in La Liga on Friday 27 January 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.
Luis Suárez opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Almería's goals came from Luis Suárez (21'), Léo Baptistão (61') and Francisco Portillo (77'). Espanyol scored through Joselu (90+3').
Discipline: Almería received 4 yellow cards; Espanyol received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Almería were 14th on 19 points from 18 and Espanyol 13th on 20 points from 18. Almería went on to finish that season 17th with 41 points, and Espanyol 19th with 37.
Almería lined up in a 4-3-3 and Espanyol in a 4-1-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Léo Baptistão of Almería (7.7), level with Adrián Embarba (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Almería wins, 3 draws and 5 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Almería's last five read D-D-L-D-W and Espanyol's W-W-D-D-L.
Key events
- 21'Goal · Luis Suárez
- 41'Yellow card · Lucas Robertone
- 44'Yellow card · Óscar Gil
- 55'Yellow card · Vinicius Souza
- 57'Yellow card · Javi Puado
- 61'Goal · Léo Baptistão
- 77'Goal · Francisco Portillo
- 78'Yellow card · Francisco Portillo
- 90+3'Goal · Joselu
- 90+7'Yellow card · Iñigo Eguaras
- 90+7'Yellow card · Iñigo Eguaras
Head-to-head
Team news
Almería line-up (4-3-3)
Fernando Martínez, Álex Pozo, Rodrigo Ely, Srdjan Babic, Sergio Akieme, Lucas Robertone, César de la Hoz, Gonzalo Melero, Léo Baptistão, Luis Suárez, Adrián Embarba
Espanyol line-up (4-1-3-2)
Álvaro Ferllo, Óscar Gil, César Montes, Leandro Cabrera, Brian Oliván, Vinicius de Souza Costa, Aleix Vidal, Sergi Darder, Javi Puado, Martin Braithwaite, Joselu