Sporting Gijón 2-3 Valencia: result and report

Sporting Gijón 2-3 Valencia

La Liga · Sunday 12 April 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Sporting Gijón · Valencia · La Liga predictions

Sporting Gijón were beaten by Valencia 2-3 in La Liga on Sunday 12 April 2009. It was 1-1 at half-time.

David Silva opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Sporting Gijón's goals came from David Barral (35', penalty) and Mate Bilic (72'). Valencia scored through David Silva (19'), David Villa (55', penalty) and Juan Mata (88').

Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 5 yellow cards; Valencia received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 13th on 33 points from 29 and Valencia 5th on 46 points from 29. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 16th with 43 points, and Valencia 6th with 62.

Sporting Gijón lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Valencia 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 Valencia.

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