Sporting Gijón 0-3 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Thursday 23 April 2009
Result
Sporting Gijón 0-3 Espanyol
La Liga · Thursday 23 April 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sporting Gijón 0-3 Espanyol: match report
Sporting Gijón lost to Espanyol 0-3 in La Liga on Thursday 23 April 2009. The half-time score was 0-1.
Nenê opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Sporting Gijón did not score. Espanyol scored through Nenê (25'), Román Martínez (73') and José Callejón (75').
Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Espanyol received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 17th on 33 points from 31 and Espanyol 19th on 29 points from 31. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 16th with 43 points, and Espanyol 10th with 47.
Sporting Gijón lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Espanyol in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sporting Gijón win, 0 draws and 0 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Sporting Gijón's last five read L-L-L-L-W and Espanyol's W-D-W-L-D.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Nenê
- 55'Yellow card · Raúl Cámara
- 72'Yellow card · Diego Camacho
- 73'Goal · Román Martínez
- 75'Goal · José Callejón
- 77'Red card · David Barral
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)
Iñaki Lafuente, Borja, Roberto Canella, Gerard, Sastre, Carmelo, Diego Castro, Diego Camacho, Lora, Mate Bilic, Luis Morán
Espanyol line-up (4-2-3-1)
Carlos Kameni, David García, Sergio Sánchez, Nicolás Pareja, Dani Jarque, De la Peña, Nenê, Moisés Hurtado, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo, Iván Alonso