Sporting Gijón 0-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 27 September 2008
Result
Sporting Gijón 0-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Saturday 27 September 2008, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Sporting Gijón 0-1 Villarreal: match report
Sporting Gijón were beaten by Villarreal 0-1 in La Liga on Saturday 27 September 2008. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Giuseppe Rossi of Villarreal in the 64th minute.
Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 5 yellow cards; Villarreal received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 20th on 0 points from 4 and Villarreal 2nd on 10 points from 4. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 16th with 43 points, and Villarreal 5th with 65.
Sporting Gijón lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2.
Going into the match Sporting Gijón's last five read L-L-L-L and Villarreal's W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 59'Yellow card · Diego Camacho
- 64'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
- 64'Yellow card · Iván Cuéllar
- 64'Yellow card · Gerard
- 68'Yellow card · Diego Castro
- 75'Yellow card · Santi Cazorla
- 88'Yellow card · Mate Bilic
- 90'Yellow card · Senna
Team news
Sporting Gijón line-up (4-4-1-1)
Iván Cuéllar, Borja, Roberto Canella, Gerard, Sastre, Carmelo, Diego Castro, Diego Camacho, Matabuena, Mate Bilic, Luis Morán
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Edmilson, Diego Godín, Joan Capdevila, Javi Venta, Fabricio Fuentes, Ariel Ibagaza, Matías Fernández, Senna, Nihat Kahveci, Llorente