Sporting Gijón 2-1 Rayo Vallecano: result and report

La Liga · Saturday 21 April 2012

Result

Sporting Gijón 2-1 Rayo Vallecano

La Liga · Saturday 21 April 2012, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sporting Gijón 2-1 Rayo Vallecano: match report

Sporting Gijón beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday 21 April 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Gastón Sangoy opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Sporting Gijón's goals came from Gastón Sangoy (18') and Mate Bilic (78'). Rayo Vallecano scored through Labaka (51').

Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 4 yellow cards; Rayo Vallecano received 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards.

Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 19th on 28 points from 33 and Rayo Vallecano 14th on 40 points from 33. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 19th with 37 points, and Rayo Vallecano 15th with 43.

Sporting Gijón lined up in a 5-4-1 and Rayo Vallecano in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sporting Gijón win, 0 draws and 0 for Rayo Vallecano.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Goal · Gastón SangoySporting Gijón · 1-0
  • 21'Yellow card · CasadoRayo Vallecano
  • 33'Yellow card · Ayoze GarcíaSporting Gijón
  • 48'Yellow card · Grégory ArnolinSporting Gijón
  • 51'Goal · LabakaRayo Vallecano · 1-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Mate BilicSporting Gijón
  • 68'Yellow card · Jorge PulidoRayo Vallecano
  • 76'Red card · LabakaRayo Vallecano
  • 76'Yellow card · Roberto TrashorrasRayo Vallecano
  • 78'Goal · Mate BilicSporting Gijón · 2-1
  • 86'Yellow card · Damián SuárezSporting Gijón
  • 87'Second yellow · CasadoRayo Vallecano

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Sporting Gijón 1, draws 0, Rayo Vallecano 0.

Team news

Sporting Gijón line-up (5-4-1)

Juan Pablo, Alberto Botía, Damián Suárez, Matthias Großmann, Ayoze García, Lora, Grégory Arnolin, Oscar Trejo, Adrián Colunga, Gastón Sangoy, Miguel de las Cuevas

Rayo Vallecano line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joel Robles, José Manuel Casado, Mikel Labaka Zurriarain, Raul Bravo, Rober Correa, Movilla, Emiliano Armenteros, Roberto Trashorras, Piti, Diego Costa, Miguel Pérez Cuesta