FC Barcelona 5-0 Almería: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 25 October 2008
Result
FC Barcelona 5-0 Almería
La Liga · Saturday 25 October 2008, 20:00 UTC · half-time 5-0
FC Barcelona 5-0 Almería: match report
FC Barcelona beat Almería 5-0 in La Liga on Saturday 25 October 2008. The half-time score was 5-0.
Samuel Eto'o opened the scoring in the 5th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Samuel Eto'o (5'), Thierry Henry (13'), Samuel Eto'o (21'), Samuel Eto'o (24') and Dani Alves (37'). Almería did not score.
Discipline: FC Barcelona received no yellow cards; Almería received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 4th on 16 points from 7 and Almería 6th on 11 points from 7. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Almería 12th with 46.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Almería in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 FC Barcelona win, 1 draw and 0 for Almería.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Almería's L-D-W-L-W.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 13'Goal · Thierry Henry
- 21'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 24'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 30'Yellow card · Crusat
- 30'Red card · Álvaro Negredo
- 37'Goal · Dani Alves
- 44'Yellow card · Juanma Ortiz
- 81'Yellow card · Soriano
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona expected line-up (4-3-3)
Puyol, Lilian Thuram, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Eiður Guðjohnsen
Almería line-up (4-2-3-1)
Diego Alves, Bruno Saltor, Guilherme Santos, Juanma Ortiz, Carlos García, Hernán Pellerano, Julio Alvarez, Crusat, Corona, Álvaro Negredo, Soriano