Atlético de Madrid 3-0 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 15 December 2013
Result
Atlético de Madrid 3-0 Valencia
La Liga · Sunday 15 December 2013, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Atlético de Madrid 3-0 Valencia: match report
Atlético de Madrid beat Valencia 3-0 in La Liga on Sunday 15 December 2013. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Diego Costa opened the scoring in the 59th minute. Atlético de Madrid's goals came from Diego Costa (59'), Raúl García (64') and Diego Costa (81', penalty). Valencia did not score.
Discipline: Atlético de Madrid received 2 yellow cards; Valencia received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Atlético de Madrid were 2nd on 40 points from 15 and Valencia 9th on 20 points from 15. Atlético de Madrid went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Valencia 8th with 49.
Atlético de Madrid lined up in a 4-4-2 and Valencia in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Atlético de Madrid wins, 5 draws and 3 for Valencia.
Going into the match Atlético de Madrid's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Valencia's W-L-D-W-L.
Key events
- 12'Yellow card · Oriol Romeu
- 15'Yellow card · Sofiane Feghouli
- 36'Yellow card · Juanfran
- 45'Yellow card · Diego Costa
- 45'Yellow card · Dani Parejo
- 59'Goal · Diego Costa
- 64'Goal · Raúl García
- 74'Yellow card · Víctor Ruiz
- 75'Missed penalty · Diego Costa
- 81'Penalty goal · Diego Costa
Head-to-head
Team news
Atlético de Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Thibaut Courtois, Diego Godín, Filipe Luís, Juanfran, Miranda, Tiago, Koke, Arda Turan, Gabi, David Villa, Diego Costa
Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)
Diego Alves, Víctor Ruiz, Juan Bernat, Antonio Barragán, Jérémy Mathieu, Oriol Romeu, Sofiane Feghouli, Andrés Guardado, Dani Parejo, Sergio Canales, Jonas