FC Barcelona 2-2 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 19 December 2020
Result
FC Barcelona 2-2 Valencia
La Liga · Saturday 19 December 2020, 15:15 UTC · half-time 1-1
FC Barcelona 2-2 Valencia: match report
FC Barcelona drew with Valencia 2-2 in La Liga on Saturday 19 December 2020. The half-time score was 1-1.
Mouctar Diakhaby opened the scoring in the 29th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Lionel Messi (45+4') and Ronald Araújo (52'). Valencia scored through Mouctar Diakhaby (29') and Maxi Gómez (69').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 4 yellow cards; Valencia received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 5th on 20 points from 12 and Valencia 13th on 14 points from 13. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 3rd with 79 points, and Valencia 13th with 43.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Valencia in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona (8.6), ahead of Jaume Doménech (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 FC Barcelona wins, 4 draws and 2 for Valencia.
Key events
- 13'Yellow card · Antoine Griezmann
- 29'Goal · Mouctar Diakhaby
- 45+3'Yellow card · José Gayà
- 45+4'Missed penalty · Lionel Messi
- 45+4'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 45+7'Yellow card · Álex Blanco
- 52'Goal · Ronald Araújo
- 57'Yellow card · Óscar Mingueza
- 69'Goal · Maxi Gómez
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jordi Alba
- 90+2'Yellow card · Clément Lenglet
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Toni Lato
- Ousmane Dembélé
- Sergi Roberto
- Gerard Piqué
- Jasper Cillessen
- Kévin Gameiro
- Ansu Fati
- Santiago Ramos Mingo
FC Barcelona line-up (4-1-4-1)
Marc ter Stegen, Sergiño Dest, Ronald Araujo, Óscar Mingueza, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Antoine Griezmann, Pedri, Philippe Coutinho, Martin Braithwaite, Lionel Messi
Valencia line-up (4-4-2)
Jaume Doménech, Daniel Wass, Gabriel Paulista, Mouctar Diakhaby, José Gayà, Yunus Musah, Carlos Soler, Uros Racic, Denis Cheryshev, Maxi Gómez, Gonçalo Guedes