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GOAL!! ARBILLA made space for CAICEDO who, after an interchange of passes on the edge of the area, struck the ball past the 'keeper. (1-0 Espanyol)
A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming Espanyol 'keeper.
15¹A mix up in the Espanyol defence enabled TRAORÉ to blast the ball over.
18¹GOAL!! A quick-witted VÍCTOR ÁLVAREZ pounced on a loose ball on the right and made no mistake. (2-0 Espanyol)
19¹SIO's shot beat the Espanyol 'keeper but rebounded off the Espanyol woodwork.
28¹CALLÀ beat VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ and blasted the ball to TRAORÉ who pulled his shot wide.
33¹GASHI shot over.
34¹GERARD kicked the ball wide from just outside the area.
35¹EMBOLO stormed through the Espanyol defence but shot straight at the Espanyol 'keeper.
43¹The 'keeper saved a swerving shot from GERARD.
43¹FREI made space on the left and knocked the ball to GONZÁLEZ who touched the ball wide.
A penalty box meleé resulted in GERARD driving a low shot over.
A corner was collected by ARBILLA who nodded an effort just beyond the near post.
A pin-point pass found EMBOLO and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide.
10²The hapless FC Basel 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from GASHI fell just wide.
11²ASENSIO ran onto a wonderful ball from JAVI LÓPEZ but toe-poked his shot wide of the goal.
16²XHAKA fired a deadly shot over the bar from just outside the area.
22²A lovely cross from SIO was lashed goalbound by SUCHÝ only for the Espanyol 'keeper to block.
32²ASENSIO rattled a simple chance past the near post.
34²JARSTEIN dived to his left to save an accurate shot from Espanyol's CAICEDO.
34²GONZÁLEZ fired the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left.
36²GOAL!! An exceptional ball from ASENSIO left GERARD in the clear, he made JARSTEIN commit himself before passing the ball to CAICEDO to score. (3-0 Espanyol)
39²JAVI LÓPEZ booked by the referee.
39²GOAL!! A foul on CALLÀ inside the area gave FC Basel a penalty which SIO made look easy. (3-1 Espanyol)
41²A useful ball from PIATTI on the right bobbled toward CAICEDO who scuffed his shot wide.

 
Espanyol
 
League position: 2
Home league form: WWWX
Overall league form: WWWXWXWX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
(c)Keylor NAVAS1Rune JARSTEIN(c)
VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ Mata2Taulant XHAKA
VÍCTOR ÁLVAREZ Delgado3Adama TRAORÉ
JAVI LÓPEZ4Fabian FREI
ÁLVARO González5Fabian SCHÄR
Anaitz ARBILLA6Marek SUCHÝ
Hernán PÉREZ7Davide CALLÀ
Marco ASENSIO8Shkëlzen GASHI
(p)Felipe CAICEDO9Giovanni SIO(p)
(f)Pablo PIATTI10Breel-Donald EMBOLO(f)
GERARD Moreno11Derlis GONZÁLEZ
Manager
RUBÉN Duarte  12  Rasmus WÜRTZ
SANTANA  13  Tomás VACLIK
BURGUI  14  Behrang SAFARI
José CAÑAS15  Johan ELMANDER
Juan FUENTES  16  Mohammed ABDELLAOUE
 
FC Basel
 
League position: 8
Away league form: LLWL
Overall league form: WWLOWLWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Espanyol 3 FC Basel 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 40,424, Stadium: Cornellà-El Prat, Referee: Wojciech Rudy 5½)

Caicedo 5¹, Víctor Álvarez 18¹, Caicedo 36²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Sio 39² (pen)
ÁlvaroóCañas 2² 
  
Javi López 39² 
23
1710
23
56
76
1212
25
42%58%
Man of the match: Davide Callà