Levante 3-2 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 2 September 2012
Result
Levante 3-2 Espanyol
La Liga · Sunday 2 September 2012, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Levante 3-2 Espanyol: match report
Levante beat Espanyol 3-2 in La Liga on Sunday 2 September 2012. The half-time score was 0-2.
Samuele Longo opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Levante's goals came from Juanlu (55'), Christian Lell (56') and an own goal by Raúl Rodríguez (90+3'). Espanyol scored through Samuele Longo (21') and Tejera (25').
Discipline: Levante received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Espanyol received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Levante were 18th on 1 point from 2 and Espanyol 19th on 0 points from 2. Levante went on to finish that season 9th with 49 points, and Espanyol 14th with 41.
Levante lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Espanyol in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Levante wins, 3 draws and 2 for Espanyol.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · Mubarak Wakaso
- 16'Yellow card · Pape Diop
- 21'Goal · Samuele Longo
- 25'Goal · Tejera
- 29'Yellow card · Víctor Sánchez
- 32'Yellow card · Capdevila
- 39'Yellow card · Pedro Rostoll
- 42'Yellow card · Cristian Álvarez
- 55'Goal · Juanlu
- 56'Goal · Christian Lell
- 58'Yellow card · Juanfran
- 67'Yellow card · Vicente Iborra
- 67'Yellow card · Tejera
- 81'Second yellow · Vicente Iborra
- 86'Yellow card · Gustavo Munúa Vera
- 90+3'Own goal · Raúl Rodríguez
Head-to-head
Team news
Levante line-up (4-2-3-1)
Hector Rodas, Ballesteros, Christian Lell, Barkero, Nabil El Zhar, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Juanlu, Pape Diop, Theofanis Gekas, Gustavo Munúa Vera, Juanfran
Espanyol expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Cristian Álvarez, Javi López, Héctor Moreno, Raúl Rodríguez, Joan Verdú, Raúl Baena, Álvaro Vázquez, Vladimír Weiss, Víctor Sánchez, Dídac Vilà