Everton 1-1 Sporting CP: result and report
Europa League · Tuesday 16 February 2010
Result
Everton 1-1 Sporting CP
Europa League · Tuesday 16 February 2010, 17:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Everton 1-1 Sporting CP: match report
Everton drew with Sporting CP 1-1 in the Europa League on Tuesday 16 February 2010. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Steven Pienaar opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Everton's goals came from Steven Pienaar (35') and Sylvain Distin (49'). Sporting CP scored through Miguel Veloso (86', penalty).
Discipline: Everton received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Sporting CP received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Everton were 27th on 13 points from 8 and Sporting CP 68th on 7 points from 6. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Everton lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sporting CP in a 4-1-3-2.
Going into the match Everton's last five read L-W-L-L-W and Sporting CP's L-D-D-W-D.
Key events
- 35'Goal · Steven Pienaar
- 49'Goal · Sylvain Distin
- 54'Yellow card · João Moutinho
- 73'Yellow card · Daniel Carriço
- 86'Red card · Sylvain Distin
- 86'Penalty goal · Miguel Veloso
Team news
Everton expected line-up (4-4-2)
Tim Howard, Leighton Baines, Lucas Neill, Tony Hibbert, Joseph Yobo, Steven Pienaar, Marouane Fellaini, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Tim Cahill, Louis Saha, Johnny Heitinga
Sporting CP expected line-up (4-1-3-2)
Rui Patrício, Ânderson Polga, Tonel, João Moutinho, Fábio Rochemback, Miguel Veloso, Derlei, Liédson