Villarreal 2-1 Sporting Gijón: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 21 February 2009
Result
Villarreal 2-1 Sporting Gijón
La Liga · Saturday 21 February 2009, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Villarreal 2-1 Sporting Gijón: match report
Villarreal beat Sporting Gijón 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday 21 February 2009. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Mate Bilic opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Villarreal's goals came from Giuseppe Rossi (2') and Capdevila (35'). Sporting Gijón scored through Mate Bilic (1').
Discipline: Villarreal received 3 yellow cards; Sporting Gijón received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 5th on 38 points from 23 and Sporting Gijón 14th on 27 points from 23. Villarreal went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Sporting Gijón 16th with 43.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sporting Gijón in a 5-3-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Villarreal win, 0 draws and 0 for Sporting Gijón.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read D-W-L-D-W and Sporting Gijón's L-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Mate Bilic
- 2'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
- 10'Yellow card · Jorge García
- 19'Yellow card · Diego Godín
- 23'Yellow card · Mate Bilic
- 26'Yellow card · Pedro
- 35'Goal · Capdevila
- 43'Yellow card · Javi Venta
- 72'Yellow card · Fabricio Fuentes
- 83'Yellow card · Michel
Head-to-head
Team news
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Diego Godín, Joan Capdevila, Javi Venta, Fabricio Fuentes, Robert Pirès, Santi Cazorla, Cani, Senna, Llorente, Giuseppe Rossi
Sporting Gijón line-up (5-3-2)
Iñaki Lafuente, Borja, Jorge García, Pedro, Roberto Canella, Raúl Cámara, Cote, Andreu, Michel, Diego Camacho, Mate Bilic