Real Madrid 2-2 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 5 October 2008
Result
Real Madrid 2-2 Espanyol
La Liga · Sunday 5 October 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Real Madrid 2-2 Espanyol: match report
Real Madrid drew with Espanyol 2-2 in La Liga on Sunday 5 October 2008. It was 2-2 at half-time.
Raúl Tamudo opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Real Madrid's goals came from Raúl (25') and Raúl (45'). Espanyol scored through Raúl Tamudo (21', penalty) and Luis García (31').
Discipline: Real Madrid received 3 yellow cards; Espanyol received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Real Madrid were 5th on 12 points from 5 and Espanyol 11th on 7 points from 5. Real Madrid went on to finish that season 2nd with 78 points, and Espanyol 10th with 47.
Real Madrid lined up in a 4-3-3 and Espanyol in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Real Madrid wins, 0 draws and 2 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Real Madrid's last five read W-W-W-W-L and Espanyol's L-L-D-W-W.
Key events
- 21'Penalty goal · Raúl Tamudo
- 25'Goal · Raúl
- 31'Goal · Luis García
- 38'Yellow card · Pepe
- 43'Yellow card · Sergio Ramos
- 45'Goal · Raúl
- 67'Yellow card · De la Peña
- 90'Yellow card · Mahamadou Diarra
Head-to-head
Team news
Real Madrid expected line-up (4-3-3)
Iker Casillas, Marcelo, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Mahamadou Diarra, Wesley Sneijder, Guti, Fabio Cannavaro, Gonzalo Higuaín, Raúl
Espanyol line-up (4-2-3-1)
Carlos Kameni, Sergio Sánchez, Grégory Béranger, Nicolás Pareja, Dani Jarque, Román Martínez, De la Peña, Nenê, Moisés Hurtado, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo