Deportivo: Lux; Juanfran, Lopo, Sidnei, Fernando Navarro (Laure 56‘); Celso Borges, Mosquera (Alex Bergantiños 62‘); Luis Alberto, Lucas Pérez (Fede Cartabia 68‘), Fayçal Fajr; Oriol Riera. 4-2-3-1.
Espanyol: Pau López; Rober Correa, Alvaro González, Enzo Roco, Duarte; Marco Asensio, Víctor Sánchez (Mamadou Sylla 57‘), Diop, Víctor Alvarez (Burgui 55’); Gerard Moreno, Caicedo (Hernán Pérez 46‘). 4-4-2.
Goals:
1-0. 14. Alvaro (own goal). Header back past own keeper from wide Fajr free kick.
2-0. 27. Lucas Pérez. Picked up Luis Alberto pass and struck shot across keeper.
3-0. 47. Lucas Pérez. Connected with Borges cross and forced shot past Pau López.
Yellow cards: Marco Asensio 13’, Lopo 24’, Lucas Pérez 26’, Diop 33’, 79’, Laure 64’, Enzo Roco 73’, Alex Bergantiños 76’, Duarte 77’ / red cards: Diop 79’.
Deportivo are up to sixth spot after they beat Espanyol 3-0 on Sunday evening, the result taking them two points above their opponents in the table. The Galicians took the lead with a quarter of an hour on the clock when Alvaro González headed a Fajr free kick back into his own net, and a few minutes later Lucas Pérez combined with Luis Alberto to make it two. Diop responded with a shot against the upright before the break, but just two minutes after the restart Pérez got his second of the match after connecting with a Celso Borges cross. Riera came close to a fourth when he hit the crossbar later in the second half, and Espanyol’s miserable evening was compounded when Diop was sent off after picking up a second booking for a crunching tackle on Fede Cartabia.