Racing Santander 1-2 FC Barcelona: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 1 February 2009
Result
Racing Santander 1-2 FC Barcelona
La Liga · Sunday 1 February 2009, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Racing Santander 1-2 FC Barcelona: match report
Racing Santander were beaten by FC Barcelona 1-2 in La Liga on Sunday 1 February 2009. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Nikola Zigic opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Racing Santander's goal came from Nikola Zigic (55', penalty). FC Barcelona scored through Lionel Messi (64') and Lionel Messi (80').
Discipline: Racing Santander received 1 yellow card; FC Barcelona received 4 yellow cards and 2 red cards.
Going into the game Racing Santander were 10th on 28 points from 20 and FC Barcelona 1st on 53 points from 20. Racing Santander went on to finish that season 11th with 46 points, and FC Barcelona 1st with 87.
Racing Santander lined up in a 4-4-2 and FC Barcelona in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Racing Santander wins, 3 draws and 4 for FC Barcelona.
Going into the match Racing Santander's last five read W-W-D-W-D and FC Barcelona's W-W-W-W-W.
Key events
- 22'Yellow card · Munitis
- 30'Yellow card · Yaya Touré
- 31'Yellow card · Eric Guérit
- 54'Yellow card · Rafael Márquez
- 55'Penalty goal · Nikola Zigic
- 64'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 77'Yellow card · Dani Alves
- 80'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 87'Second yellow · Rafael Márquez
- 90+2'Second yellow · Eric Guérit
Head-to-head
Team news
Racing Santander line-up (4-4-2)
Toño, Oriol, César Navas, Juan Valera, Iván Marcano, Toni Moral, Colsa, Mehdi Lacen, Nikola Zigic, Jonathan Pereira, Munitis
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