Deportivo La Coruna vs 30.08.26 17:303 – 1Full Time
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Match report
Deportivo La Coruna sink Valencia despite finishing with ten men
Deportivo La Coruna beat Valencia 3-1 at the Estadio Municipal de Riazor in La Liga's third round, with two own goals either side of a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang strike proving decisive. The home side led inside 13 minutes when César Tárrega turned the ball into his own net, and things worsened for the visitors soon after.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Aubameyang doubled the hosts' advantage in the 17th minute, finishing from Mario Soriano's assist, before Umar Sadiq pulled one back for Valencia nine minutes later to make it 2-1 at the interval. Deportivo restored their two-goal cushion after the break when Mouctar Diakhaby diverted the ball into his own net in the 59th minute, putting the result out of Valencia's reach.
The contest turned more chaotic in stoppage time as Deportivo's Adrià Alti was sent off in the 90th+3 minute, leaving the home side to see out the closing moments a man light. Valencia had shaded possession at 55 percent and edged the shot count 12 to 11, but Deportivo's clinical finishing, aided by two defensive errors, made the difference on the day.
Aubameyang scored Deportivo's second goal and was rated the outstanding performer on the pitch with a 7.9 mark, while Sadiq's consolation strike for Valencia earned him a 7.7 rating.
Deportivo were the more indisciplined side, committing 14 fouls to Valencia's five and finishing the match with a man sent off.
Deportivo La Coruna beat Valencia 3–1 (half-time 2–1).
Deportivo La Coruna met Valencia in the La Liga (Regular Season - 3). Kick-off was Sunday, 30 August 2026, 17:30 UTC at Estadio Municipal de Riazor. Referee: Miguel Angel Ortiz Arias.
Team pages: Deportivo La Coruna · Valencia · La Liga
Key moments
- 13' Goal (own goal): César Tárrega — 1–0 · Watch César Tárrega's goal video (13')
- 17' Goal: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (assist: Mario Soriano) — 2–0 · Watch Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal video (17')
- 26' Goal: Umar Sadiq — 2–1 · Watch Umar Sadiq's goal video (26')
- 59' Goal (own goal): Mouctar Diakhaby — 3–1 · Watch Mouctar Diakhaby's goal video (59')
- 90+3' Red card: Adrià Altimira
Starting line-ups
Deportivo La Coruna (4-4-2)
Valencia (5-4-1)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Deportivo La Coruna 34%, the draw 31%, Valencia 35%. It finished Deportivo La Coruna 3–1 Valencia.
Anyone's game — Valencia are the stronger side on our strength rating, and Deportivo La Coruna's cold finishing due to recover plus La Liga home advantage against the early-season home fade cancels out. The draw at 31% is lifted by the early-season fade in home wins.
Why Valencia at 35%?
Valencia sit 112 points higher on our strength rating — 1685 to 1797. Sides with a 100–200-point rating edge on the road won 40.1% of 13,122 such games. Both sides are inside their first six league games — home wins land softer this early in the season, so this trims Deportivo La Coruna's column. Across 10,823 opening-stretch games since 2010, home sides won 42.8% where the rating map expected 44.9%, with draws up 2.0 — negative in every season since 2018. The 300 most similar past games finished 35–29–36.
Why only 35%?
Deportivo La Coruna sit -0.31 goals per game below chance-quality — cold streaks like this have bounced back. Finishing swings carry a receipt at this rating gap too: sides finishing this cold won 38.8% of 2,405 such games where the class table expected 36.3%. La Liga home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (28.3% vs 30.2%). La Liga homes won 46.7% of 6,105 games vs 44.9% across all 99,542 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly.
Why the draw at 31%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.2%. These teams' recent games average 2.3 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.2% of 27,699. Early-season fixtures add 2.0 points to the draw. The goals environment adds 1.4 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Deportivo La Coruna are newly promoted — game 3 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides ran below their rating in nine of the last ten seasons — 26.5% wins in their first ten games where the rating expected 30.0% (2,793 games since 2012), fading but still visible through game nineteen. Deportivo La Coruna are missing 2 regular starters — Adrià Alti, Peke — about 19% of their usual starting-XI weight. A body count alone told us nothing. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
On this page: the Deportivo La Coruna vs Valencia final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this La Liga fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
- Starting lineups and player ratings for both teams.
- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
- Watch César Tárrega's own goal video (13').
- Watch Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal against Valencia (17').
- Watch Umar Sadiq's goal against Deportivo La Coruna (26').
- Watch Mouctar Diakhaby's own goal video (59').
Watch the goals: goal highlights and video clips of every goal from Deportivo La Coruna 3–1 Valencia. Explore more on the Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia team pages or the La Liga page.