Real Madrid 3-1 Sporting Gijón: result and report

Real Madrid 3-1 Sporting Gijón

La Liga · Saturday 14 April 2012, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Real Madrid won against Sporting Gijón 3-1 in La Liga on Saturday 14 April 2012. It was 1-1 at half-time.

De las Cuevas opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Real Madrid's goals came from Gonzalo Higuaín (37'), Cristiano Ronaldo (74') and Karim Benzema (82'). Sporting Gijón scored through De las Cuevas (30', penalty).

Discipline: Real Madrid received 2 yellow cards; Sporting Gijón received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Real Madrid were 1st on 82 points from 32 and Sporting Gijón 18th on 28 points from 32. Real Madrid went on to finish that season 1st with 100 points, and Sporting Gijón 19th with 37.

Real Madrid lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sporting Gijón in a 5-4-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Real Madrid wins, 1 draw and 1 for Sporting Gijón.

Going into the match Real Madrid's last five read W-D-W-W-D and Sporting Gijón's W-L-L-D-L.