Valencia CF - Sporting Gijon
La Liga Jornada 3
20.09.2009
21:00 (CET)
Estadio Mestalla
Sporting de Gijón
from Gijon, Asturias. Established on 1905, known as the RojiBlancos, home field is El Molinon, and funny fact is that its the oldest professional football field in Spain, they had 37 seasons in Primera Division, in which the ended up runner ups on one occasion, 1979 and Copa del Rey runner up on two occasions, 1981 and 1982. They also competed 6 times in the Uefa Cup.
Valencia x Sporting Gijon - a Historical look in Mestalla
Valencia C.F. 2-3 Sporting de Gijón 2008-09
Valencia C.F. 2-2 Sporting de Gijón 1997-98
Valencia C.F. 2-1 Sporting de Gijón 1996-97
Valencia C.F. 1-0 Sporting de Gijón 1995-96
Valencia C.F. 0-0 Sporting de Gijón 1994-95
Valencia C.F. 1-0 Sporting de Gijón 1993-94
Valencia C.F. 2-0 Sporting de Gijón 1992-93
Valencia C.F. 3-1 Sporting de Gijón 1991-92
Victories for Valencia C.F. - 24
Games Tied - 8
Victories for Sporting - 4
Biggest Victory for Valencia C.F.: 29/11/1953 Valencia C.F. 8 - 0 Sporting de Gijón
Biggest Victory for Sporting de Gijón: 08/01/1984 Valencia C.F. 0 - 3 Sporting de Gijón
Sporting Gijon 2009/10
Well, as of last year, they will be also fighting to stay in La Liga this year, although they started good last year, but they ended up fighting in the end of the season like we all expected, so I expect them to fight to stay in La Liga, and will probably stay, they have a good squad and have the most important 'fighting spirit". Well the did not have a very much impressive summer in the market, no important arrivals and the same the opposite direction, players like Bilic and Carmelo stayed, Michel aslo remained at the club.
Summer Activity
OUT - Lafuente, Raúl Cámara, Omar (onloan, to Málaga), Colin, Neru, Sergio Sánchez.
IN - Miguel De las Cuevas (transfered from Atletico with an option of re-purchase), Rivera (Free), Arnolin (from Vitória Guimarães), Juan Pablo (from Numancia), Alberto Botía (onloan, from Barcelona), Portilla (transfered from Racing)
Sporting Gijon Squad
Goalkeepers
Juan Pablo
Ivan Cuellar
Raul
Defenders
Alberto Botia
Jose Angel
Gregory Amorim
Gerard
Rafael Sastre
Sergio Matabuena
Midfielders
Andreu
Alberto Rivera
Carmelo
Pedro
Michel
Francisco Jose Maldonado
Alberto Lora
Ivan Hernandez
Roberto Canella
Diego Camacho
Miguel
Quique Mateo
Forwards
Mate Bilic
Diego Castro
Luis Moran
David Barral
Key Players
Mate Bilić
Croatian Footballer, had a really good debut season last year in La Liga with Sporting, forms the offensive line of Sporting with David Barral with both of them combining together to score 22 goals last season, Bilic can be dangerous to our defense, he is a good finisher and a good player, a bit lucky too I think, so we better watch out for him.
David Barral
a Spanish player, was one of the best players for Sporting last season, as i said he paired with Bilic to score 22 goals, cost us a lot of problems in Mestalla last year if you guys remember, so we better close down and mark this player well.
Carmelo
I thought that he was sporting's best player in the start of last season, then he started to disappear with the season moving on, as was all the Sporting squad, he was definitely their best player, had a lot of pace on the ball, a lot of vision and was fast, linking up all the team. Spanish attacking midfielder ofcourse, scored 6 goals for Sporting last season.
Diego Castro
another dangerous Sporting player offensively, he is a left winger, but I have seen him play in other positions, scored the winning goal in their last match.
Latest Results
Friendly - Racing Santander 1-0 Sporting Gijón
Friendly - Celta de Vigo 3-0 Sporting Gijón
Friendly - Salamanca 0-2 Sporting Gijón
LaLiga - Barcelona 3-0 Sporting Gijón
LaLiga - Sporting Gijón 1-0 Almería
Last Match Analysis
Sporting Gijon 1-0 Almeria
they played with starting line-up
J.Pablo
Lora - Botia - Gregory - Canella
Rivera - Michel
Miguel - Maldonado - D.Castro
Barral
Lora - Botia - Gregory - Canella
Rivera - Michel
Miguel - Maldonado - D.Castro
Barral
Morran, Camacho and Bilic coming in later on
Sporting Gijon won with the minimum effort, the Almeria players did not even think about approaching J.Pablo goal, Sporting scored their first goal of the season, thanks to a goal from D.Castro in the fifth minute, a cross from Lora, the right fullback to Barral who fails to score but Castro completes off the rebound. for the rest of the match Sporting had serious defending, trying to stop Almeria's left winger Crusat. and they succeeded doing it. The best thing for Sporting in this match was Lora, the right fullback who was solid stoping Crusat and made the assist for the goal.
Teams News
Vicente will be there travelling with the squad.
Preciado has a full squad to choose from.
Manuel Fernandes still out, while Baraja is doubtful.
Match Analysis
David Villa, the first name that comes up when you think about Sporting Gijon, as usual emotional 'i'am not going to celebrate if I score' well i always thought David played bad against Sporting 'intentional?' lol.. anyways he loves us more ofcourse, and he will do his best, and as you all know David Villa said this morning that we should be careful because Sporting surprised us last season in Mestalla, and thats what I think too, they got what it takes to surprise, but morale is high in Mestalla, new grass, fans supporting the team to the maximum, David Villa, Silva, Banega and especially Mata are all on fire, i doubt Sporting Gijon can cope with our offensive line, there is no way we can lose this one if we play like our last 2 matches, if they score 3 we will score 4, thats how its going to go, but sometimes ref and luck can kill you, as of last match, if we score first we will dominate this match and win it wide open. but if they score first we can have some problems, as they all will go back to defend and our team best quality is their counter-attacks. my prediction 4-0 Valencia C.F
AMUNT
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