Valencia 1-3 Atlético de Madrid: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 6 March 2016
Result
Valencia 1-3 Atlético de Madrid
La Liga · Sunday 6 March 2016, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Valencia 1-3 Atlético de Madrid: match report
Valencia were beaten by Atlético de Madrid 1-3 in La Liga on Sunday 6 March 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Valencia's goal came from Denis Cheryshev (28'). Atlético de Madrid scored through Antoine Griezmann (24'), Fernando Torres (72') and Yannick Carrasco (85').
Discipline: Valencia received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Atlético de Madrid received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Valencia were 8th on 36 points from 27 and Atlético de Madrid 2nd on 61 points from 27. Valencia went on to finish that season 13th with 44 points, and Atlético de Madrid 2nd with 88.
Valencia lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Atlético de Madrid in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Valencia wins, 3 draws and 5 for Atlético de Madrid.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read W-L-W-W-L and Atlético de Madrid's W-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 24'Goal · Antoine Griezmann
- 28'Goal · Denis Cheryshev
- 57'Yellow card · Aderllan Santos
- 64'Yellow card · Luciano Vietto
- 72'Goal · Fernando Torres
- 78'Yellow card · Sofiane Feghouli
- 80'Second yellow · Aderllan Santos
- 85'Goal · Yannick Carrasco
Head-to-head
Team news
Valencia expected line-up (4-1-4-1)
Diego Alves, Aderllan Santos, João Cancelo, Shkodran Mustafi, José Gayà, Dani Parejo, Enzo Pérez, André Gomes, Denis Cheryshev, Álvaro Negredo
Atlético de Madrid expected line-up (4-4-2)
Jan Oblak, Filipe Luís, Juanfran, Diego Godín, José María Giménez, Koke, Gabi, Saúl Ñíguez, Antoine Griezmann, Luciano Vietto