Espanyol 2-1 Real Madrid: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 20 October 2007
Result
Espanyol 2-1 Real Madrid
La Liga · Saturday 20 October 2007, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Espanyol 2-1 Real Madrid: match report
Espanyol defeated Real Madrid 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday 20 October 2007. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Riera opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Espanyol's goals came from Riera (1') and Raúl Tamudo (52'). Real Madrid scored through Sergio Ramos (88').
Discipline: Espanyol received 3 yellow cards; Real Madrid received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Espanyol were 5th on 13 points from 7 and Real Madrid 1st on 19 points from 7. Espanyol went on to finish that season 12th with 48 points, and Real Madrid 1st with 85.
Espanyol lined up in a 4-4-2 and Real Madrid in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Espanyol win, 0 draws and 3 for Real Madrid.
Going into the match Espanyol's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Real Madrid's W-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Riera
- 31'Yellow card · Ruud van Nistelrooy
- 39'Yellow card · Pablo Zabaleta
- 52'Goal · Raúl Tamudo
- 85'Yellow card · Guti
- 86'Yellow card · Sergio Ramos
- 88'Goal · Sergio Ramos
- 88'Yellow card · C. Kameni
- 90+2'Yellow card · Soriano
Head-to-head
Team news
Espanyol line-up (4-4-2)
Carlos Kameni, Clemente Rodríguez, Pablo Zabaleta, Marc Torrejón, Dani Jarque, Valdo, Albert Riera, Moisés Hurtado, Milan Smiljanić, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo
Real Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Christoph Metzelder, Mahamadou Diarra, Wesley Sneijder, Fabio Cannavaro, Raúl, Guti, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Gonzalo Higuaín