Real Madrid 1-0 Racing Santander: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 7 February 2009
Result
Real Madrid 1-0 Racing Santander
La Liga · Saturday 7 February 2009, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Real Madrid 1-0 Racing Santander: match report
Real Madrid beat Racing Santander 1-0 in La Liga on Saturday 7 February 2009. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Gonzalo Higuaín of Real Madrid in the 49th minute.
Discipline: Real Madrid received 4 yellow cards; Racing Santander received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Real Madrid were 2nd on 44 points from 21 and Racing Santander 10th on 28 points from 21. Real Madrid went on to finish that season 2nd with 78 points, and Racing Santander 11th with 46.
Real Madrid lined up in a 4-3-3 and Racing Santander in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Real Madrid wins, 0 draws and 2 for Racing Santander.
Going into the match Real Madrid's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Racing Santander's L-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 42'Yellow card · Lassana Diarra
- 49'Goal · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 56'Yellow card · Oriol
- 57'Yellow card · Arjen Robben
- 70'Yellow card · Wesley Sneijder
- 74'Yellow card · Rafael van der Vaart
- 85'Yellow card · Juan Valera
- 90+1'Yellow card · Peter Luccin
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
Racing Santander line-up (4-4-2)
Toño, Oriol, César Navas, Juan Valera, Iván Marcano, Colsa, Serrano, Mehdi Lacen, Meme Tchite, Nikola Zigic, Jonathan Pereira