Espanyol 3-1 FC Barcelona: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 13 January 2007
Result
Espanyol 3-1 FC Barcelona
La Liga · Saturday 13 January 2007, 21:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Espanyol 3-1 FC Barcelona: match report
Espanyol beat FC Barcelona 3-1 in La Liga on Saturday 13 January 2007. The half-time score was 1-0.
Luis García opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Espanyol's goals came from Luis García (30'), Raúl Tamudo (65') and Rufete (88'). FC Barcelona scored through Javier Saviola (59').
Discipline: Espanyol received 8 yellow cards; FC Barcelona received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Espanyol were 10th on 22 points from 17 and FC Barcelona 2nd on 35 points from 16. Espanyol went on to finish that season 12th with 49 points, and FC Barcelona 1st with 76.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Espanyol wins, 0 draws and 2 for FC Barcelona.
Going into the match Espanyol's last five read L-W-L-W-W and FC Barcelona's D-D-W-D-W.
Key events
- 30'Goal · Luis García
- 32'Yellow card · Rufete
- 43'Yellow card · R. Márquez
- 44'Yellow card · Juan Velasco
- 57'Yellow card · Raúl Tamudo
- 59'Goal · Javier Saviola
- 60'Yellow card · Puyol
- 65'Goal · Raúl Tamudo
- 72'Yellow card · Luis García
- 79'Yellow card · Moisés Hurtado
- 80'Yellow card · W. Pandiani
- 81'Yellow card · Riera
- 86'Yellow card · Sergio Sánchez
- 88'Goal · Rufete
Head-to-head
Team news
Espanyol line-up
Carlos Kameni, Javi Chica, Juan Velasco, Marc Torrejón, Dani Jarque, De la Peña, Albert Riera, Moisés Hurtado, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo, Rufete
FC Barcelona expected line-up
Puyol, Andrés Iniesta, Deco, Ludovic Giuly, Ronaldinho, Víctor Valdés, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Gianluca Zambrotta, Rafael Márquez Álvarez, Thiago Motta