Valencia 2-2 Espanyol: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 28 May 2023

Result

Valencia 2-2 Espanyol

La Liga · Sunday 28 May 2023, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Valencia · Espanyol · La Liga predictions

Valencia 2-2 Espanyol: match report

Valencia drew with Espanyol 2-2 in La Liga on Sunday 28 May 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Diego López opened the scoring in the 38th minute. Valencia's goals came from Diego López (38') and Samuel Lino (90+3'). Espanyol scored through César Montes (40') and Martin Braithwaite (50').

Discipline: Valencia received no yellow cards; Espanyol received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Valencia were 13th on 40 points from 36 and Espanyol 19th on 35 points from 36. Valencia went on to finish that season 14th with 42 points, and Espanyol 19th with 37.

Valencia lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Espanyol in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to André Almeida of Valencia (7.8), ahead of Samuel Lino (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Valencia wins, 3 draws and 2 for Espanyol.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Yellow card · César MontesEspanyol
  • 37'Yellow card · Óscar GilEspanyol
  • 38'Goal · Diego LópezValencia · 1-0
  • 40'Goal · César MontesEspanyol · 1-1
  • 50'Goal · Martin BraithwaiteEspanyol · 1-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Aleix VidalEspanyol
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Martin BraithwaiteEspanyol
  • 90+3'Goal · Samuel LinoValencia · 2-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Valencia 5, draws 3, Espanyol 2.

Team news

Unavailable

Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)

Giorgi Mamardashvili, Thierry Correia, Mouctar Diakhaby, Gabriel Paulista, José Gayà, Javi Guerra, Nico González, Diego López, André Almeida, Toni Lato, Justin Kluivert

Espanyol line-up (5-3-2)

Fernando Pacheco, Óscar Gil, César Montes, Sergi Gómez Solà, Leandro Cabrera, Brian Oliván, Javi Puado, Sergi Darder, Denis Suárez, Joselu, Nico Melamed