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Commentary
3¹A great shot from DIARRA was dealt with by a good parry from the 'keeper.
4¹GOAL!! With his back to goal MURPHY turned and stroked the ball past the 'keeper. (1-0 VfB Stuttgart)
7¹KHEDIRA beat BENAYOUN and fired the ball to DERDIYOK who pulled his shot wide.
7¹A clever cross from MURPHY was placed goalbound by PODOLSKI only for the 'keeper to block.
10¹A useful ball from HÖWEDES on the left fell to PODOLSKI who mishit his shot wide.
21¹PODOLSKI's shot was well held by IRAIZOZ.
23¹GOAL!! A perfect ball from CASTRO left PODOLSKI in the clear, he made IRAIZOZ commit himself before nudging the ball to MURPHY to score. (2-0 VfB Stuttgart)
31¹PODOLSKI's shot was well saved by IRAIZOZ.
31¹FUKAL beat four VfB Stuttgart players and stroked an effort just beyond the near post.
38¹DOUGLAS COSTA made space on the right and knocked the ball to STRANZL who rasped the ball wide.
39¹GOAL!! After DIARRA was fouled DINELLI waved play-on and MALOUDA went on to easily score. (2-1 VfB Stuttgart)
2²A mix up in the VfB Stuttgart defence enabled TAMUDO to blast the ball wide.
10²PODOLSKI flicked an easy chance past the far post.
12²A drive from TAMUDO seemed a certain goal but WEIDENFELLER managed to punch the ball away.
17²An inswinging corner was headed into the arms of WEIDENFELLER by TAMUDO.
18²DOUGLAS COSTA shot wide.
24²TAMUDO was put clear by BENAYOUN and he dummied the 'keeper but thrust his shot wide.
26²A corner bobbled toward DERDIYOK who nodded the ball inches wide.
39²PODOLSKI chipped the ball to MURPHY who turned it over the bar.
43²A weak strike from PODOLSKI trickled agonisingly wide.

 
Espanyol
 
League position: 15
Home league form: WXWW
Overall league form: WXXXWWWW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Gorka IRAIZOZ6½16½Roman WEIDENFELLER
(c)Milan FUKAL6½26½Jérôme BOATENG
DAVID GARCÍA de la Cruz6½38 Gonzalo CASTRO
Alou DIARRA7 47½Sami KHEDIRA
Rafael MARQUEZ5½57 Benedikt HÖWEDES
José CASTRO6 66½Martin STRANZL
Yossi BENAYOUN6½77 DOUGLAS COSTA de Souza
Florent MALOUDA7 87 Lukas PODOLSKI
(p)Raúl TAMUDO6 96 Eren DERDIYOK(p)
(f)Matías FERNÁNDEZ6½107 Danny MURPHY(f)
Ferrán COROMINAS5½116 Nicolas ANELKA(c)
Manager
Alejandro ALFARO  12  Philip BARGFREDE
David OSPINA  13  José CORONA
ILSINHO  14  Sidney SAM
Marco MARCHIONNI  15  Luuk DE JONG
EDUARDO Nascimento COSTA  167½Christian TRÄSCH
 
VfB Stuttgart
 
League position: 8
Away league form: LLWL
Overall league form: WLWXWLLW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Espanyol 1 VfB Stuttgart 2
(Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 54,920, Stadium: Cornellà-El Prat, Referee: Carlo Dinelli 7½)

Malouda 39¹
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Murphy 4¹, Murphy 23¹
 Douglas CostaóTräsch 28²
  
  
23
1216
00
45
38
713
32
37%63%
Man of the match: Gonzalo Castro