Sporting Gijón 1-3 Espanyol: result and report

Sporting Gijón 1-3 Espanyol

La Liga · Saturday 27 February 2016, 17:15 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Sporting Gijón were beaten by Espanyol 1-3 in La Liga on Saturday 27 February 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Ignacio Pastor opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Sporting Gijón's goals came from Ignacio Pastor (20') and Ignacio Pastor (62'). Espanyol scored through Burgui (41'), Gerard Moreno (48'), Gerard Moreno (58') and an own goal by Luis Hernández (80').

Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 5 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Espanyol received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 17th on 24 points from 25 and Espanyol 15th on 27 points from 25. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 17th with 39 points, and Espanyol 16th with 41.

Sporting Gijón lined up in a 4-4-2 and Espanyol in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Gerard Moreno of Espanyol (8.6), ahead of Ignacio Pastor (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sporting Gijón wins, 2 draws and 3 for Espanyol.