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Match report
Football Elite
Division 1: Round 40 (setup 4, season 9)
Corinthians
v.
Espanyol
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Petr CECH17David DE GEA Quintana
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Victorio 'Maximiliano' PEREIRA Páez27Lukasz PISZCZEK
MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior3FERNANDO NAVARRO Corbacho
Andrés INIESTA Luján747David Jiménez SILVA
Sergei IGNASHEVICH757Laurent KOSCIELNY
MAXWELL Scherrer Cabelino Andrade766Andreas CHRISTENSEN
Arturo Erasmo VIDAL Pardo676Sami KHEDIRA
Mesut ÖZIL78PEDRO Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma
Gonzalo Gerardo HIGUAÍN9Robert LEWANDOWSKI
Ángel Fabián DI MARÍA610DIEGO da Silva COSTA
Munir EL HADDADI Mohamed6116Sergio Leonel AGÜERO
Manager
Ezequiel PONCE12VÍCTOR ÁLVAREZ Delgado
Iker CASILLAS Fernández13Francisco Casilla Cortés, KIKO CASILLA
Diego Santos Gama Camilo, BIRO BIRO614Franck RIBÉRY
Kingsley BOATENG15RUBÉN Duarte Sánchez
Mats DÆHLI16Víctor RUÍZ Torre

Corinthians 2 Espanyol 2
(Half-time: 2-1, Attendance: 40,156, Stadium: Arena Corinthians, Referee: Chris FOY 7½, TV: live)
22 Özil, 42 HiguaínScorers2 Agüero, 53 Lewandowski
67 El Haddadi <=> Biro BiroSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners1
2Fouls7
2Offsides4
5Shots on5
8Shots off7
13Total shots12
2Shots saved3
52%Possession48%
Man of the match: MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior
2The Espanyol 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from DI MARÍA.
2GOAL!! A quick free-kick allowed DIEGO COSTA to knock the ball to AGÜERO who drilled a looping shot into the net. (1-0 Espanyol)
4A corner found MARCELO who touched an effort just wide.
9A free-kick from AGÜERO went just wide.
12HIGUAÍN clipped the ball through a ruck of players but DE GEA was a match for it as he dived to his left.
16A pin-point pass fell to SILVA and his left foot effort flew narrowly wide.
18A twenty-five yard drive from SILVA caused the Corinthians 'keeper little difficulty.
19ÖZIL scuffed an easy chance.
22GOAL!! A mishit PEREIRA shot was collected by ÖZIL who made no mistake from just outside the area. (1-1)
26PEDRO ran onto a delightful ball from SILVA but fired his shot wide.
36DI MARÍA beat a number of Espanyol players and blasted a great chance wide.
38PEDRO brought the ball round VIDAL and stabbed a weak shot well wide.
42GOAL!! A deep cross by VIDAL was met by HIGUAÍN who stormed in to score. (2-1 Corinthians)
44An outswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the Corinthians 'keeper by FERNANDO NAVARRO.
45+1A mix up in the Corinthians defence enabled LEWANDOWSKI to volley an effort over.
 
49LEWANDOWSKI knocked the ball to PEDRO who turned it wide.
53GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from DIEGO COSTA rebounded off the upright and in the ensuing meleé the ball was booted into the net by LEWANDOWSKI. (2-2)
57HIGUAÍN headed just beyond the far post.
62ÖZIL was put clear by IGNASHEVICH and he nutmegged DE GEA but struck his shot wide.
68A poor strike from HIGUAÍN trickled agonisingly wide.
70KHEDIRA nutmegged BIRO BIRO but flicked the ball into the arms of CECH.
74A penalty box meleé resulted in HIGUAÍN knocking a low shot over.
77A cross from DI MARÍA left ÖZIL in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
83The 'keeper saved a beautiful effort from BIRO BIRO.
85DIEGO COSTA stabbed a simple chance past the near post.