Sporting Gijón 1-3 FC Barcelona: result and report
La Liga · Wednesday 17 February 2016
Result
Sporting Gijón 1-3 FC Barcelona
La Liga · Wednesday 17 February 2016, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-2
Sporting Gijón 1-3 FC Barcelona: match report
Sporting Gijón were beaten by FC Barcelona 1-3 in La Liga on Wednesday 17 February 2016. It was 1-2 at half-time.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Sporting Gijón's goal came from Ignacio Pastor (27'). FC Barcelona scored through Lionel Messi (25'), Lionel Messi (31') and Luis Suárez (67').
Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 2 yellow cards; FC Barcelona received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 17th on 23 points from 23 and FC Barcelona 1st on 54 points from 23. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 17th with 39 points, and FC Barcelona 1st with 88.
Sporting Gijón lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and FC Barcelona in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona (9.5), ahead of Luis Suárez (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sporting Gijón wins, 1 draw and 7 for FC Barcelona.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 27'Goal · Ignacio Pastor
- 31'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 61'Yellow card · Jorge Meré
- 62'Missed penalty · Luis Suárez
- 67'Goal · Luis Suárez
- 78'Yellow card · Sergio Busquets
- 90+1'Yellow card · Canella
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Gijón expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Iván Cuéllar, Isma López, Luis Hernández, Jorge Meré, Jony, Dani Ndi, Lora, Nacho Cases, Antonio Sanabria
FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)
Claudio Bravo, Aleix Vidal, Gerard Piqué, Jérémy Mathieu, Adriano, Ivan Rakitić, Sergio Busquets, Arda Turan, Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Neymar