Espanyol 2-1 Athletic Club: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 20 March 2016
Result
Espanyol 2-1 Athletic Club
La Liga · Sunday 20 March 2016, 11:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Espanyol 2-1 Athletic Club: match report
Espanyol beat Athletic Club 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 20 March 2016. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Eraso opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Espanyol's goals came from Pape Diop (54') and Felipe Caicedo (57'). Athletic Club scored through Eraso (20').
Discipline: Espanyol received 3 yellow cards; Athletic Club received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Espanyol were 15th on 32 points from 29 and Athletic Club 6th on 44 points from 29. Espanyol went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Athletic Club 4th with 61.
Espanyol lined up in a 4-3-3 and Athletic Club in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pape Diop of Espanyol (7.9), level with Hernán Pérez (7.9).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Espanyol wins, 3 draws and 1 for Athletic Club.
Going into the match Espanyol's last five read D-D-L-W-W and Athletic Club's W-W-W-W-L.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Eraso
- 47'Yellow card · Mikel Rico
- 54'Goal · Pape Diop
- 57'Goal · Felipe Caicedo
- 60'Yellow card · Álvaro González
- 84'Yellow card · Iñigo Lekue
- 86'Yellow card · Hernán Pérez
- 90+3'Yellow card · Pau López
- 90+6'Yellow card · Beñat
Head-to-head
Team news
Espanyol line-up (4-3-3)
Pau López, Álvaro González, Enzo Roco, Óscar Duarte, Rubén Duarte Sánchez, Víctor Sánchez, Pape Diop, Abraham González, Marco Asensio, Gerard Moreno, Hernán Pérez
Athletic Club expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Xabier Etxeita, Aymeric Laporte, Óscar de Marcos, Mikel Balenziaga, Beñat, Muniain, Raúl García, Mikel San José, Aritz Aduriz