Athletic Club 1-1 Espanyol: result and report

La Liga · Friday 8 March 2019

Result

Athletic Club 1-1 Espanyol

La Liga · Friday 8 March 2019, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Athletic Club 1-1 Espanyol: match report

Athletic Club drew with Espanyol 1-1 in La Liga on Friday 8 March 2019. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Facundo Ferreyra opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Athletic Club's goal came from Raúl García (80'). Espanyol scored through Facundo Ferreyra (9').

Discipline: Athletic Club received 3 yellow cards; Espanyol received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Athletic Club were 12th on 33 points from 26 and Espanyol 13th on 33 points from 26. Athletic Club went on to finish that season 8th with 53 points, and Espanyol 7th with 53.

Athletic Club lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Espanyol in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Raúl García of Athletic Club (8.0), level with Muniain (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Athletic Club wins, 3 draws and 5 for Espanyol.

Going into the match Athletic Club's last five read L-W-W-D-L and Espanyol's W-D-D-W-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Facundo FerreyraEspanyol · 0-1
  • 21'Yellow card · Facundo FerreyraEspanyol
  • 24'Yellow card · Mario HermosoEspanyol
  • 36'Yellow card · Dani GarcíaAthletic Club
  • 45'Yellow card · Óscar MelendoEspanyol
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Yuri BerchicheAthletic Club
  • 73'Yellow card · GraneroEspanyol
  • 78'Yellow card · Iñigo MartínezAthletic Club
  • 80'Goal · Raúl GarcíaAthletic Club · 1-1
  • 87'Yellow card · Víctor SánchezEspanyol

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Athletic Club 2, draws 3, Espanyol 5.

Team news

Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)

Iago Herrerín, Óscar de Marcos, Yeray Álvarez, Iñigo Martínez, Yuri Berchiche, Mikel San José, Dani García, Susaeta, Raúl García, Muniain, Iñaki Williams

Espanyol line-up (4-1-4-1)

Diego López, Roberto Rosales, Naldo, Mario Hermoso, Javi López, Marc Roca, Hernán Pérez, Óscar Melendo, Granero, Wu Lei, Facundo Ferreyra