Espanyol star makes history in win over Celta Vigo | OneFootball

Espanyol star Roberto Fernández secured for himself a piece of history on Saturday evening.

This came owing to his exploits in the club’s latest outing.

Espanyol marked their return to action a short time ago, making the trip to Balaídos for a La Liga meeting with Celta Vigo.

And, when all was said and done, the visitors emerged on the right side of an altogether impressive result.

In a major boost to the club’s survival hopes, Espanyol put Celta to the sword by two goals to nil, to climb a full six points clear of the bottom three in Spain’s top-flight.

And it was the aforementioned Roberto Fernández who proved himself the undisputed star of the show.

The on-loan Braga star netted the game’s only two goals, courtesy of strikes just shy of the half-hour mark, and just beyond the 60-minute mark.

And as alluded to above, in the process, Fernández made history.

As per statisticians Opta:

‘At 22 years and 283 days old, Roberto Fernandez is the youngest Espanyol player to score twice in a LaLiga away game in the 21st century, surpassing Maxi Rodriguez’s record against Real Betis in September 2004.’

Conor Laird – GSFN