Deportivo A Coruña 1-3 FC Barcelona: result and report

La Liga · Saturday 5 December 2009

Result

Deportivo A Coruña 1-3 FC Barcelona

La Liga · Saturday 5 December 2009, 21:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Deportivo A Coruña 1-3 FC Barcelona: match report

Deportivo A Coruña were beaten by FC Barcelona 1-3 in La Liga on Saturday 5 December 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Lionel Messi opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Deportivo A Coruña's goal came from Adrián (38'). FC Barcelona scored through Lionel Messi (27'), Lionel Messi (80') and Zlatan Ibrahimović (88').

Discipline: Deportivo A Coruña received 1 yellow card; FC Barcelona received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Deportivo A Coruña were 5th on 25 points from 12 and FC Barcelona 1st on 33 points from 13. Deportivo A Coruña went on to finish that season 10th with 47 points, and FC Barcelona 1st with 99.

Deportivo A Coruña lined up in a 4-4-2 and FC Barcelona in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Deportivo A Coruña win, 3 draws and 4 for FC Barcelona.

Going into the match Deportivo A Coruña's last five read W-W-W-D-L and FC Barcelona's W-W-D-W-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Goal · Lionel MessiFC Barcelona · 0-1
  • 38'Goal · AdriánDeportivo A Coruña · 1-1
  • 48'Yellow card · Dani AlvesFC Barcelona
  • 58'Yellow card · MistaDeportivo A Coruña
  • 77'Yellow card · Eric AbidalFC Barcelona
  • 80'Goal · Lionel MessiFC Barcelona · 1-2
  • 88'Goal · Zlatan IbrahimovićFC Barcelona · 1-3

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Deportivo A Coruña 1, draws 3, FC Barcelona 4.

Team news

Deportivo A Coruña line-up (4-4-2)

Aranzubia, Manuel Pablo, Filipe Luís, Alberto Lopo, Diego Colotto, Antonio Tomás, Andrés Guardado, Juan Rodríguez, Sergio, Adrián, Mista

FC Barcelona expected line-up (4-3-3)

Puyol, Lilian Thuram, Deco, Andrés Iniesta, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Gianluca Zambrotta