Spanish La Liga Round One
Posted on September 5, 2008
Filed Under La Liga
Sunday 30th August
The first two games of round one of La Liga saw Espanyol beat Real Valladolid 1-0 and Valencia beating Real Mallorca 3-0. Luis Garcia scored Espanyols winner against Valladolid in the 49th minute. This was the first goal of the La Liga Season. David villa gave Valencia the lead after 35 minutes. That lead was doubled by Juan Mata just three minutes later. Vicente completed the scoring in the 82nd minute for Valencia.
Sunday 31st August
The two favourites for the La Liga title both suffered defeats in the first round of games in La Liga. Real Madrid suffered a 2-1 defeat away from home to Deportivo. Barcelona were beaten 1-0 at league newcomers Numancia. This season was meant to be the rejuvenation of a Barcelona team who looked very stale last season. In their first game of the season they looked just like the team that appeared under the leadership of Frank Rijkaard. Barca were beaten by a 13th minute Mario goal. They had no answer to the newly promoted team.
Real Madrid were also poor away in Coruna. The home team took the lead on the 27th minute through Miguel Mista. Real equalised just after the break on the 47th minute through Dutchman Ruud Van Nistelrooy and must of thought that they could go on to win the game. Albert Lopo scored the winner just five minutes after Real’s equaliser.
Second place team last season Villarreal fared only slightly better with a 1-1 draw against Osasuna. Villarreal took the lead through Marcos Senna nine minutes into the second half. Iranian Javad Nekounam levelled the scores through a free-kick on the 68th minute. Hugh Leal was sent off after conceding the free kick that resulted in the goal. Osasuna then had Bejunartea Miguel Flano sent off in the 78th minute.
Atletico Madrid managed a big 4-0 victory over Malaga. Two Diego Forlan goals, a Sergio ‘Kun’ Aguero goal and the scoring was completed by former Liverpool player Florent Sinama-Pongolle. Sevilla could only manage a 1-1 draw with Racing Santander. Luis Fabiano opened the scoring for Sevilla in the 71st minute. Only for Juan Juanjo to come off the bench to grab an equaliser 5 minutes later. Almeria beat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 with Hernan Pellerano (7), Alvaro Negrado (33) and Juan Manuel Ortiz (50) scoring the goals for the away side. Ion Velez scored a consolation goal in the 56th minute for Bilbao.
Recreativo Huelva beat Real Betis 1-0 in Andalucia. Perez Adrian Colunga scored the only goal of the game in the 36st minute. Getafe won 2-1 against Sporting Gijon thanks to a winner just four minutes from time. Getafe took the lead in the 14th minute through Juan Albin. Gimenez Diego Castro scored an equaliser in the 35th minute for Gijon. Javier Casquero scored the winner four minutes from time.
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