Atlético de Madrid 3-1 Sporting Gijón: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 26 April 2009
Result
Atlético de Madrid 3-1 Sporting Gijón
La Liga · Sunday 26 April 2009, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Atlético de Madrid 3-1 Sporting Gijón: match report
Atlético de Madrid beat Sporting Gijón 3-1 in La Liga on Sunday 26 April 2009. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Diego Forlán Corazo opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Atlético de Madrid's goals came from Diego Forlán Corazo (28'), Simão (41') and Sergio Agüero (47'). Sporting Gijón scored through Mate Bilic (48').
Discipline: Atlético de Madrid received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sporting Gijón received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Atlético de Madrid were 8th on 49 points from 32 and Sporting Gijón 18th on 33 points from 32. Atlético de Madrid went on to finish that season 4th with 67 points, and Sporting Gijón 16th with 43.
Atlético de Madrid lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sporting Gijón in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Atlético de Madrid win, 0 draws and 0 for Sporting Gijón.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · Diego Camacho
- 20'Yellow card · Raúl García
- 28'Goal · Diego Forlán Corazo
- 41'Goal · Simão
- 47'Goal · Sergio Agüero
- 48'Goal · Mate Bilic
- 58'Yellow card · Sastre
- 62'Yellow card · Paulo Assunção
- 85'Yellow card · Simão
- 86'Second yellow · Simão
- 87'Yellow card · Lora
- 90+1'Yellow card · Luis Morán
Head-to-head
Team news
Atlético de Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Antonio López, Tomás Ujfalusi, Paulo Assunção, Simão, Raúl García, Johnny Heitinga, Diego Forlán Corazo, Sergio Agüero, Maxi Rodríguez, Carlos Gallego, Leo Franco
Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)
Iván Cuéllar, Borja, Pedro, Iván Hernández, Roberto Canella, Sastre, Michel, Diego Castro, Diego Camacho, Lora, Mate Bilic