FC Barcelona 2-3 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 1 February 2014
Result
FC Barcelona 2-3 Valencia
La Liga · Saturday 1 February 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
FC Barcelona 2-3 Valencia: match report
FC Barcelona were beaten by Valencia 2-3 in La Liga on Saturday 1 February 2014. It was 1-1 at half-time.
A. Sánchez opened the scoring in the 7th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from A. Sánchez (7') and Lionel Messi (54', penalty). Valencia scored through Dani Parejo (44'), Pablo Piatti (48') and Paco Alcácer (59').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Valencia received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 3rd on 52 points from 21 and Valencia 11th on 25 points from 21. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 3rd with 85 points, and Valencia 8th with 49.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Valencia in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 FC Barcelona wins, 4 draws and 0 for Valencia.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-D-D-W-W and Valencia's D-D-L-W-L.
Key events
- 7'Goal · A. Sánchez
- 44'Goal · Dani Parejo
- 45+1'Yellow card · Dani Parejo
- 48'Goal · Pablo Piatti
- 52'Yellow card · Jordi Alba
- 53'Yellow card · Ricardo Costa
- 54'Penalty goal · Lionel Messi
- 59'Goal · Paco Alcácer
- 78'Second yellow · Jordi Alba
- 79'Yellow card · Javier Mascherano
- 90+4'Yellow card · Diego Alves
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)
Víctor Valdés, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Dani Alves, Cesc Fàbregas, Xavi, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Busquets, Pedro, Alexis Sánchez, Lionel Messi
Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)
Diego Alves, Juan Bernat, Antonio Barragán, Ricardo Costa, Jérémy Mathieu, Oriol Romeu, Sofiane Feghouli, Javi Fuego, Dani Parejo, Pablo Piatti, Paco Alcácer