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Sporting Gijón defeats Deportivo La Coruña in a thrilling match at El Molinón
Gijón, May 10, 2025.- Sporting Gijón defeated Deportivo La Coruña 2-1 in a match played at the Estadio Municipal El Molinón, corresponding to matchday 39 of the Segunda División. Despite Deportivo’s clear possession advantage (67%), Sporting showed greater effectiveness in attack.
The home side started strongly, scoring two goals in the first half. Nico Serrano opened the scoring in the 17th minute, assisted by Gaspar Campos. Before halftime, Nico Méndez extended the lead, assisted by Christian Gelabert Pina. The first half ended with yellow cards for Olaetxea of Sporting and Hernandez of Deportivo.
In the second half, Deportivo reacted and managed to pull one back thanks to a goal from Iker Barbero in the 61st minute. However, despite their territorial dominance and numerous shots (9 shots to Sporting’s 15), the Coruña team could not equalize. Sporting, in turn, received two more yellow cards. The match ended with a narrow victory for the home side, who added three important points in their fight for promotion. Despite the defeat, Deportivo La Coruña demonstrated a significantly superior ball possession.
Substitutions deportivo la coruna: at minute 46 I. Barbero came in and D. Genreau went out., at minute 46 C. Herrera came in and Y. Hernandez went out., at minute 62 H. Rama came in and D. Gomez went out., at minute 78 S. Escudero came in and R. Obrador went out., at minute 83 M. Bouldini came in and Z. Eddahchouri went out.
Substitutions sporting gijon: at minute 69 D. Sanchez came in and Cote went out., at minute 69 P. Garcia came in and G. Campos went out., at minute 79 N. Martin came in and C. Gelabert Pina went out., at minute 79 D. Queipo came in and N. Serrano went out., at minute 89 K. Vazquez came in and G. Rosas went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Sporting Gijon
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Deportivo La Coruna
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