Deportivo La Coruna
Valencia
Match summary
Deportivo La Coruna won 3-1 at home to Valencia. Deportivo La Coruna led 2-1 at half-time.
In the first half, Tárrega's own goal put Deportivo La Coruna ahead from a corner in the 13th minute, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang made it 2-0 in the 17th minute, set up by Mario Soriano, and Umar Sadiq pulled one back to make it 2-1 in the 26th minute. In the second half, Diakhaby's own goal made it 3-1 in the 59th minute.
The chances backed that up: Deportivo La Coruna created 1.41 expected goals (xG) from 11 shots to Valencia's 1.02 from 12. Deportivo La Coruna had a player sent off.
Deportivo La Coruna secured a 3-1 victory against Valencia in La Liga on matchday three, despite recording lower possession and fewer attacking sequences overall. The hosts managed forty-five percent possession and eleven shots compared to Valencia's twelve, while achieving an expected goals figure of 1.41 against the visitors' 1.02. Both sides registered four shots on target and five corners apiece. The match saw fourteen fouls committed by Deportivo La Coruna and five by Valencia, resulting in two yellow cards and a late red card for the home side, while Valencia received one yellow card.
The scoring opened in the thirteenth minute when César Tárrega put through his own net to give Deportivo La Coruna the lead. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang doubled the advantage in the seventeenth minute with a left-footed shot. Valencia responded in the twenty-sixth minute through Umar Sadiq, who scored with a right-footed shot to make it 2-1 at half-time. In the fifty-ninth minute, Mouctar Diakhaby scored an own goal, extending the hosts' lead to 3-1. Mouctar Diakhaby received a yellow card in the sixty-fifth minute, and Adrià Altimira was shown a second yellow card leading to a red card in the ninety-third minute.
