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Espanyol 2-0 FC Barcelona - February 09, 1997 / Primera División 1996/1997

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Primera División 1996/1997 - Round 23

Estadi de Sarrià - Barcelona - Spain

February 09, 1997 - 19:30

Espanyol

2 - 0

FC Barcelona

(penalty) Florin Raducioiu

14'

(penalty) Florin Raducioiu

50'

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14' - Goal Florin Raducioiu14

20' - Red card Luis Figo

45' - Substitution Albert Ferreris substituted by Giovanni

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50' - Goal Florin Raducioiu50

73' - Substitution Florin Raducioiuis substituted by Nicolas Ouédec73

80' - Substitution Laurent Blancis substituted by Emmanuel Amunike

85' - Substitution Luis Cembranosis substituted by Javi85

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Espanyol

2 - 0

FC Barcelona

Espanyol FC Barcelona

Team line-ups

Espanyol

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

16Raducioiu501473

Florin Raducioiu

Romania

B.date17/03/1970

Age26 years

H1m80

positionRight Winger

8Cembranos85

Luis Cembranos

Spain

B.date06/06/1972

Age24 years

H1m76

positionPlaymaker

11Lardín

Jordi Lardín

Spain

B.date04/06/1973

Age23 years

H1m75

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

19Arteaga

Moisés Arteaga

Spain

B.date01/06/1969

Age27 years

H1m84

positionLeft Midfielder

10Brnovic

Branko Brnovic

Montenegro

B.date08/08/1967

Age29 years

H1m83

positionDefensive Midfielder

15Bogdanovic

Goran Bogdanovic

Serbia

B.date27/04/1967

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight Midfielder

3Torres Mestre

Torres Mestre

Spain

B.date31/12/1970

Age26 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

5Pochettino

Mauricio Pochettino

Argentina

B.date02/03/1972

Age24 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

4Herrera

Sebastián Herrera

Spain

B.date22/04/1969

Age27 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

2Cristóbal

Cristóbal

Spain

B.date21/08/1967

Age29 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

13Raúl

Raúl

Spain

B.date23/06/1969

Age27 years

H1m84

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
13	G	Raúl		27	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Mauricio Pochettino		24	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Sebastián Herrera		27	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Torres Mestre		26	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Cristóbal		29	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Branko Brnovic		29	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Moisés Arteaga		27	112	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Goran Bogdanovic		29	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Luis Cembranos	85	24	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Jordi Lardín		23	127	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Florin Raducioiu	501473	26	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

FC Barcelona

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

19Pizzi

Juan Antonio Pizzi

Spain

B.date07/06/1968

Age28 years

H1m85

positionStriker

21Luis Enrique

Luis Enrique

Spain

B.date08/05/1970

Age26 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

9Ronaldo

Ronaldo

Brazil

B.date22/09/1976

Age20 years

H1m83

positionStriker

7Figo20

Luis Figo

Portugal

B.date04/11/1972

Age24 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

4Guardiola

Josep Guardiola

Spain

B.date18/01/1971

Age26 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

5Popescu

Gheorghe Popescu

Romania

B.date09/10/1967

Age29 years

H1m88

positionCentre Midfield

12Sergi

Sergi

Spain

B.date28/12/1971

Age25 years

H1m74

positionLeft full-back

15Blanc80

Laurent Blanc

France

B.date19/11/1965

Age31 years

H1m90

positionSweeper

24Couto

Fernando Couto

Portugal

B.date02/08/1969

Age27 years

H1m84

positionCentral defender

Ferrer45

Albert Ferrer

Spain

B.date06/06/1970

Age26 years

H1m70

positionRight full-back

1Baia

Vitor Baia

Portugal

B.date15/10/1969

Age27 years

H1m84

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Vitor Baia		27	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Laurent Blanc	80	31	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Fernando Couto		27	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	D	Albert Ferrer	45	26	247	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Sergi		25	162	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Luis Enrique		26	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Josep Guardiola		26	243	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Gheorghe Popescu		29	79	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Luis Figo	20	24	77	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Ronaldo		20	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Juan Antonio Pizzi		28	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
9	F		Nicolas Ouédec	73	25	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F		Javi	85	27	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
17	M		Emmanuel Amunike	80	26	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F		Giovanni	45	25	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Raúl

Pascal Olmeta

OUT

Goran Bogdanovic

Pacheta

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Vicente Miera

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Miera vs FC Barcelona

6 victories

4 draws

12 losses

Latest figure on February 09, 1997

Miera vs Robson

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on February 09, 1997

Manager

Age

Match num

Bobby Robson

Success rate in this team:

58 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Robson vs Espanyol

1 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 09, 1997

Robson vs Miera

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on February 09, 1997

Referee

Carlos Megia Dávila

6 victories	8 draws	6 losses	Espanyol20 matches	General total	FC Barcelona17 matches	10 victories	5 draws	2 losses
1 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Espanyol3 matches	Season total	FC Barcelona3 matches	2 victories	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on January 29, 2009					Latest figure on January 29, 2009

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Key figures

End of streak for FC Barcelona after 5 consecutive matches without a loss (since 19/01/1997). It was the best streak for the club since 01/09/1996-18/11/1996 (17 matches).

End of streak for Espanyol after 4 consecutive matches without a win (since 25/01/1997).

Luis Enrique played his game number 10 vs in his professional career

Read the next 18 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DEspanyol 0-0 Racing Santander24/11/1996

VEspanyol 3-0 Real Zaragoza08/12/1996

LEspanyol 0-2 Compostela05/01/1997

VEspanyol 4-1 Sporting Gijón08/01/1997

VEspanyol 1-0 Sevilla FC20/01/1997

DEspanyol 0-0 Deportivo La Coruña05/02/1997

Overall

DSporting Gijón 2-2 Espanyol15/01/1997

VEspanyol 1-0 Sevilla FC20/01/1997

DValencia CF 1-1 Espanyol25/01/1997

DDeportivo La Coruña 2-2 Espanyol28/01/1997

LSporting Gijón 4-3 Espanyol02/02/1997

DEspanyol 0-0 Deportivo La Coruña05/02/1997

Current form

Away

DSporting Gijón 0-0 FC Barcelona04/11/1996

LAthletic Bilbao 2-1 FC Barcelona23/11/1996

LReal Madrid 2-0 FC Barcelona07/12/1996

VDeportivo La Coruña 0-1 FC Barcelona04/01/1997

VReal Betis 2-4 FC Barcelona19/01/1997

DReal Madrid 1-1 FC Barcelona06/02/1997

Overall

LFC Barcelona 2-3 Hércules CF13/01/1997

VReal Betis 2-4 FC Barcelona19/01/1997

VFC Barcelona 6-0 Rayo Vallecano26/01/1997

VFC Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid30/01/1997

DFC Barcelona 2-2 Real Oviedo02/02/1997

DReal Madrid 1-1 FC Barcelona06/02/1997

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	3	1
Winless streak	1	4
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	2	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	3	5
Winless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	3	8
Conceding streak	2	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

22	Number of games (Competition total)	22
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
6	Victories (Competition total)	14
5	Victories (Home / Away)	6
5	Draws (Competition total)	5
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
11	Losses (Competition total)	3
2	Losses (Home / Away)	2

Goals

26	Goals scored (Competition total)	62
14	Goals scored (Home / Away)	22
33	Goals conceded (Competition total)	28
7	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	13
1.18	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.82
1.4	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2.2
1.5	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.27
0.7	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.3

Betting aid

11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	15
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
6	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
8	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	2
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	2
11	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
3	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
0-0 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	4-2 (2 times)

Bookings

59	Yellow cards (Competition total)	48
28	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	24
6	Red cards (Competition total)	2
3	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Jordi Lardín	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	18 goals	Ronaldo
Miguel Ángel Benítez	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	7 goals	Luis Enrique
Florin Raducioiu	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Ronaldo
Nicolas Ouédec	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Gheorghe Popescu
Miguel Ángel Benítez	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Iván De la Peña
-		Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Iván De la Peña
Florin Raducioiu	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 4 matches	Ronaldo

Historical head to head

Home

72 matches

25 v

21 d

26 l

100 gf

99 ga

Away

72 matches

9 v

7 d

56 l

71 gf

174 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

1 gf

3 ga

Total

145 matches

34 v

28 d

83 l

172 gf

276 ga

Historical head to head

Home

72 matches

56 v

7 d

9 l

174 gf

71 ga

Away

72 matches

26 v

21 d

25 l

99 gf

100 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

1 ga

Total

145 matches

83 v

28 d

34 l

276 gf

172 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 0	April 15, 1951
Home	6 - 0	April 15, 1951

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	November 29, 1992
Away	4 - 0	May 31, 1992

Latest head to head

September 07, 1996 - Primera División 1996/1997

FC Barcelona

2 - 1

Espanyol

May 15, 1996 - Primera Division 1995/1996

Espanyol

1 - 1

FC Barcelona logo FC Barcelona

February 28, 1996 - Copa del Rey 1995/1996

Espanyol

2 - 3

FC Barcelona logo FC Barcelona

February 22, 1996 - Copa del Rey 1995/1996

FC Barcelona

1 - 0

Espanyol

January 04, 1996 - Primera Division 1995/1996

FC Barcelona

2 - 1

Espanyol

Best historical scorers against FC Barcelona

Tintín Márquez	3 goals	1986 - 1986
Igor Korneev	2 goals	1992 - 1992
Michel Pineda	2 goals	1986 - 1987
Ismael Urzaiz	2 goals	1996 - 1996
Alex Garcia	1 goal	1991 - 1991
Gabino	1 goal	1989 - 1989

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/04/1929. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Espanyol

Asensi	9 goals	1973 - 1980
Sandor Kocsis	8 goals	1959 - 1964
Justo Tejada Martinez	8 goals	1956 - 1960
Laszlo Kubala	8 goals	1953 - 1961
Manuel Clares Garcia	7 goals	1974 - 1977
Eduardo Manchon Molina	6 goals	1953 - 1956

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/04/1929. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs FC Barcelona

Thomas N'Kono	13 matches	1983 - 1989
Diego Orejuela	13 matches	1983 - 1990
Francisco	11 matches	1990 - 1996
Manuel Zúñiga	11 matches	1983 - 1988
John Lauridsen	11 matches	1983 - 1988
Iñaki	10 matches	1984 - 1988

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 07/04/1929. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Espanyol

Migueli	29 matches	1974 - 1988
Juan Segarra Iracheta	24 matches	1950 - 1962
Antonio Ramallets	23 matches	1949 - 1961
Francisco Carrasco	21 matches	1978 - 1988
Sigfrido Gracia Royo	20 matches	1955 - 1964
Laszlo Kubala	19 matches	1951 - 1961