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Commentary
A pin-point pass was collected by OLIC and his right foot effort flew narrowly wide.
JAVI MÁRQUEZ made space on the right and knocked the ball to VERDÚ who rasped the ball wide.
CALLEJÓN worked the ball to RAÚL BAENA, VERDÚ collected his pass and headed the ball within easy reach of the Cruz Azul 'keeper.
12¹The Cruz Azul 'keeper saved a curling effort from PINTO.
17¹RAÚL BAENA ran onto a delightful ball from JAVI MÁRQUEZ but pulled his shot wide of the righthand post.
21¹PEREIRA shot over.
25¹A corner found DE MARCOS who headed an effort over the bar.
27¹A free-kick from HANGELAND went over the bar.
30¹GOAL!! An imaginative SAMUEL played a delightful ball down the middle to FELLAINI who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-0 Cruz Azul)
36¹A clever pass from SUÁREZ was hit goalbound by ROBBEN only for the Espanyol 'keeper to claw away.
37¹PINTO's shot beat CORONA but rebounded off the Cruz Azul woodwork.
40¹PEREIRA headed just wide.
42¹A cross from JAVI MÁRQUEZ left SAHAR in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
47¹A header by CALLEJÓN at the near post was easily collected by CORONA.
10²A good ball from FELLAINI on the left bobbled toward DE MARCOS who mishit his shot over.
12²SAMUEL beat a number of Espanyol players and thundered a shot wide.
15²GOAL!! DI NATALE drove an amazing shot against the woodwork with JELAVIC cracking in the rebound. (2-0 Cruz Azul)
20²An exceptional effort from ROBBEN scraped the outside of the post.
26²VERDÚ's shot was well saved by the 'keeper.
29²JELAVIC waltzed away from MOTTA and poked a poor shot well wide.
41²GOAL!! A great ball from JAGIELKA left JELAVIC in the clear, he made ÁLVAREZ commit himself before touching the ball to ROBBEN to score. (3-0 Cruz Azul)
47²A mix up in the Espanyol defence enabled JAGIELKA to blast the ball just beyond the near post.

 
Cruz Azul
 
League position: 2
Home league form: WWLX
Overall league form: WWLWLXXW
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
José CORONA1Cristian ÁLVAREZ
JOÃO Pedro PEREIRA2Marco MOTTA
Álvaro PEREIRA3Fausto PINTO
Marouane FELLAINI4José RAÚL BAENA
Phil JAGIELKA5Brede HANGELAND
Walter SAMUEL6Nicolas PAREJA
Óscar DE MARCOS7José CALLEJÓN
Arjen ROBBEN8Joan VERDÚ
(p)Nikica JELAVIC9Ben SAHAR(p)
(c,f)Antonio DI NATALE10JAVI MÁRQUEZ(f)
Luis SUÁREZ11Ivica OLIC(c)
Manager
Lorenzo INSIGNE  12  Facundo RONCAGLIA
Gerardo TORRADO  13  Idriss KAMENI
SUSO  14  JUANMI
Christian GIMÉNEZ  15  Francisco CHICA
PACO ALCÁCER  16  DAVID GARCÍA de la Cruz
 
Espanyol
 
League position: 7
Away league form: LWWL
Overall league form: LWWWXWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Cruz Azul 3 Espanyol 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 35,771, Stadium: Azul, Referee: Sergei Khussainov 6)

Fellaini 30¹, Jelavic 15², Robben 41²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
  
16
215
54
45
85
1210
15
54%46%
Man of the match: Arjen Robben