Athletic Club 0-3 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Wednesday 26 September 2018

Result

Athletic Club 0-3 Villarreal

La Liga · Wednesday 26 September 2018, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Athletic Club 0-3 Villarreal: match report

Athletic Club lost to Villarreal 0-3 in La Liga on Wednesday 26 September 2018. The half-time score was 0-0.

Pablo Fornals opened the scoring in the 65th minute. Athletic Club did not score. Villarreal scored through Pablo Fornals (65'), Ramiro Funes Mori (80') and Karl Toko Ekambi (89').

Discipline: Athletic Club received 1 yellow card; Villarreal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Athletic Club were 12th on 6 points from 4 and Villarreal 14th on 5 points from 5. Athletic Club went on to finish that season 8th with 53 points, and Villarreal 14th with 44.

Athletic Club lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Pablo Fornals of Villarreal (9.2), ahead of Sergio Asenjo (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Athletic Club wins, 3 draws and 3 for Villarreal.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 65'Goal · Pablo FornalsVillarreal · 0-1
  • 73'Yellow card · Óscar de MarcosAthletic Club
  • 76'Yellow card · Víctor RuizVillarreal
  • 80'Goal · Ramiro Funes MoriVillarreal · 0-2
  • 89'Goal · Karl Toko EkambiVillarreal · 0-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Athletic Club 4, draws 3, Villarreal 3.

Team news

Athletic Club line-up (4-2-3-1)

Unai Simón, Óscar de Marcos, Unai Núñez, Iñigo Martínez, Yuri Berchiche, Beñat, Iturraspe, Ander Capa, Raúl García, Muniain, Iñaki Williams

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Sergio Asenjo, Mario Gaspar, Álvaro González, Víctor Ruiz, Jaume Costa, Pablo Fornals, Manu Trigueros, Ramiro Funes Mori, Miguel Layún, Gerard Moreno, Carlos Bacca