Valencia 3-2 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 31 March 2007
Result
Valencia 3-2 Espanyol
La Liga · Saturday 31 March 2007, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Valencia 3-2 Espanyol: match report
Valencia beat Espanyol 3-2 in La Liga on Saturday 31 March 2007. It was 2-1 at half-time.
David Villa opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Valencia's goals came from David Villa (11'), Vicente (25') and Miguel Angulo (58'). Espanyol scored through Riera (14') and Luis García (62').
Discipline: Valencia received 4 yellow cards; Espanyol received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valencia were 4th on 47 points from 27 and Espanyol 10th on 38 points from 27. Valencia went on to finish that season 4th with 66 points, and Espanyol 12th with 49.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Valencia wins, 1 draw and 0 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read L-D-W-D-W and Espanyol's D-D-D-W-W.
Key events
- 11'Goal · David Villa
- 14'Goal · Riera
- 22'Yellow card · Jesús Lacruz
- 25'Yellow card · Vicente
- 25'Goal · Vicente
- 27'Yellow card · Emiliano Moretti
- 30'Yellow card · Javi Chica
- 42'Yellow card · Dani Jarque
- 52'Yellow card · De la Peña
- 58'Goal · Miguel Angulo
- 62'Goal · Luis García
- 70'Yellow card · Roberto Ayala
- 70'Yellow card · Raúl Tamudo
- 79'Yellow card · Raúl Albiol
Head-to-head
Team news
Valencia line-up
Cañizares, Del Horno, Roberto Ayala, Raúl Albiol, Emiliano Moretti, Marchena, Vicente, David Villa, Joaquín, Miguel Ángel Angulo, Curro Torres
Espanyol line-up
Carlos Kameni, Javi Chica, Jesús Lacruz, Marc Torrejón, Dani Jarque, De la Peña, Albert Riera, Moisés Hurtado, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo, Rufete