Espanyol 0-0 FC Barcelona: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 2 January 2016
Result
Espanyol 0-0 FC Barcelona
La Liga · Saturday 2 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Espanyol 0-0 FC Barcelona: match report
Espanyol drew with FC Barcelona 0-0 in La Liga on Saturday 2 January 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Neither side found the net.
Discipline: Espanyol received 5 yellow cards; FC Barcelona received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Espanyol were 11th on 22 points from 17 and FC Barcelona 2nd on 35 points from 16. Espanyol went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and FC Barcelona 1st with 88.
Espanyol lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and FC Barcelona in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sergio Busquets of FC Barcelona (8.0), ahead of Ivan Rakitić (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Espanyol wins, 1 draw and 9 for FC Barcelona.
Going into the match Espanyol's last five read L-W-L-D-L and FC Barcelona's W-L-D-W-W.
Key events
- 22'Yellow card · Álvaro González
- 22'Yellow card · J. Mascherano
- 31'Yellow card · Javi López
- 42'Yellow card · Joan Jordán
- 60'Yellow card · Víctor Álvarez
- 86'Yellow card · Neymar
- 88'Yellow card · Pape Diop
- 90+3'Yellow card · Eric Guérit
Head-to-head
Team news
Espanyol line-up (4-2-3-1)
Pau López, Víctor Álvarez, Enzo Roco, Javi López, Álvaro González, Burgui, Pape Diop, Hernán Pérez, Joan Jordán, Marco Asensio, Felipe Caicedo
FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)
Claudio Bravo, Gerard Piqué, Dani Alves, Javier Mascherano, Jordi Alba, Ivan Rakitić, Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi, Neymar