FC Barcelona 3-0 Atlético de Madrid: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 7 October 2007
Result
FC Barcelona 3-0 Atlético de Madrid
La Liga · Sunday 7 October 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
FC Barcelona 3-0 Atlético de Madrid: match report
FC Barcelona won against Atlético de Madrid 3-0 in La Liga on Sunday 7 October 2007. The half-time score was 2-0.
Deco opened the scoring in the 15th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Deco (15'), Lionel Messi (20') and Xavi (90'). Atlético de Madrid did not score.
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 1 yellow card; Atlético de Madrid received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 4th on 14 points from 6 and Atlético de Madrid 6th on 11 points from 6. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 3rd with 67 points, and Atlético de Madrid 5th with 64.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 FC Barcelona win, 1 draw and 2 for Atlético de Madrid.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-W-W-D-W and Atlético de Madrid's W-W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · Pernía
- 15'Goal · Deco
- 20'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 61'Yellow card · Deco
- 72'Yellow card · Raúl García
- 75'Yellow card · Pablo Ibáñez
- 79'Yellow card · Giorgios Seitaridis
- 90'Goal · Xavi
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona expected line-up
Puyol, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Víctor Valdés, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Thiago Motta
Atlético de Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Christian Abbiati, Giorgios Seitaridis, Pernía, Pablo Ibáñez, José Antonio Reyes, Maniche, Simão, Raúl García, Diego Forlán Corazo, Sergio Agüero, Zé Castro