Sporting Gijón 1-1 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 31 October 2010

Result

Sporting Gijón 1-1 Villarreal

La Liga · Sunday 31 October 2010, 16:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sporting Gijón 1-1 Villarreal: match report

Sporting Gijón drew with Villarreal 1-1 in La Liga on Sunday 31 October 2010. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Diego Castro opened the scoring in the 69th minute. Sporting Gijón's goal came from Diego Castro (69', penalty). Villarreal scored through Giuseppe Rossi (90', penalty).

Discipline: Sporting Gijón received 5 yellow cards; Villarreal received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sporting Gijón were 15th on 8 points from 8 and Villarreal 3rd on 19 points from 8. Sporting Gijón went on to finish that season 9th with 47 points, and Villarreal 4th with 62.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sporting Gijón win, 0 draws and 3 for Villarreal.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Yellow card · Grégory ArnolinSporting Gijón
  • 36'Yellow card · Gastón SangoySporting Gijón
  • 44'Yellow card · RiveraSporting Gijón
  • 68'Yellow card · Gonzalo RodríguezVillarreal
  • 69'Penalty goal · Diego CastroSporting Gijón · 1-0
  • 72'Yellow card · Borja ValeroVillarreal
  • 77'Second yellow · Gonzalo RodríguezVillarreal
  • 90'Penalty goal · Giuseppe RossiVillarreal · 1-1
  • 90'Yellow card · David BarralSporting Gijón
  • 90'Yellow card · Sebastián Eguren LedesmaSporting Gijón
  • 90'Yellow card · Ángel LópezVillarreal

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Sporting Gijón 1, draws 0, Villarreal 3.

Team news

Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)

Juan Pablo, Alberto Botía, Cote, Rivera, Carmelo, Lora, Grégory Arnolin, Diego Castro, Sebastián Eguren Ledesma, Miguel de las Cuevas, Gastón Sangoy

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Ángel López, Joan Capdevila, Marchena, Santi Cazorla, Cani, Borja Valero, Bruno, Nilmar, Giuseppe Rossi