FC Barcelona 3-1 Sporting Gijón: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 8 February 2009
Result
FC Barcelona 3-1 Sporting Gijón
La Liga · Sunday 8 February 2009, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
FC Barcelona 3-1 Sporting Gijón: match report
FC Barcelona beat Sporting Gijón 3-1 in La Liga on Sunday 8 February 2009. The half-time score was 2-0.
Samuel Eto'o opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Samuel Eto'o (23'), Samuel Eto'o (40') and Dani Alves (66'). Sporting Gijón scored through Kike Mateo (68').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 2 yellow cards; Sporting Gijón received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 1st on 56 points from 21 and Sporting Gijón 12th on 27 points from 21. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Sporting Gijón 16th with 43.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sporting Gijón in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 FC Barcelona win, 0 draws and 0 for Sporting Gijón.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Sporting Gijón's W-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Gerard
- 23'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 38'Yellow card · Matabuena
- 40'Goal · Samuel Eto'o
- 45'Yellow card · Eric Abidal
- 56'Yellow card · Thierry Henry
- 66'Goal · Dani Alves
- 68'Goal · Kike Mateo
- 73'Yellow card · Michel
Head-to-head
Team news
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
Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)
Iñaki Lafuente, Iván Hernández, Gerard, Raúl Cámara, Sastre, Carmelo, Michel, Diego Castro, Matabuena, Luis Morán, David Barral