Nine men Sporting Gijon stun Villarreal with a last minute equalizer: La Liga match update
Last minute goal from Diego Castro held Villarreal to a 1-1 draw against Sporting Gijon at the El Madrigal, on Sunday evening. Sporting went down to nine men, after defenders Jose Angel and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rafel-Sastre-c30412 were shown red cards in the second half.
Juan http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Giuseppe-Rossi-c15027 and Nilmar started upfront in a 4-4-2 formation.
Sporting Gijon made wholesale changes to their team that beat Getafe 2-0 in their last match. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-Barral-c10428 and Castro started upfront for the visitors.
Villarreal dominated the early proceedings and sprayed passes along the field. The hosts came close of opening the scoring in the 4th minute but http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alberto-Botía-c4316 made an excellent tackle to take the ball away from Rossi after the
striker was ready to pull the trigger from close range.
The visitors came close of scoring from an effort in the ninth minute, when Andre Castro beat the offside trap but drilled his shot just wide of the goal.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cani-c8305 did all the hard work after beating two men and fed the Brazilian inside the box; Nilmar smacked his shot into the side nettings.
The Yellow Submarine opened the scoring in the 27th minute, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ivan-c17215 Cuellar made a horrible mistake as he missed the corner and Rossi tapped home his 25th goal of the season.
Moments later, the visitors had a wonderful chance to equalize, when De las Cuevas broke the offside trap from a dangerous position but drilled a weak shot straight in the hands of Diego Lopez.
Villarreal dominated 57 percent of the possession in the first half and deserved to go a goal up at the break.
The second half witnessed a slow start as both teams struggled to dominate possession. The first chance of the half came in the 63rd minute, a cross from Nilmar found Rossi and his first time effort went whiskers wide of the
post.
Two minutes later, Jose Angel was sent off after receiving his second yellow card of the evening, for tapping the referee on the back.
The visitors did not capitalize on an extra-man advantage and failed to create decent openings.
Just before the full time whistle, Sporting went down to nine men after Sastre was shown a straight red card for hauling Rossi down as the last man.
When it looked like the hosts were going to nick out a win, Sporting were awarded a penalty in the stoppage time, after Gonzalo brought down http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-Castro-c11103 stepped up and chipped the ball in the middle of the net,
sending keeper the wrong way to make it 1-1.
Villarreal will face Athletic Bilbao in their next fixture on 20th March, while Sporting Gijon take on UD Almeria the same day.
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