Athletic Club 2-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 23 October 2021
Result
Athletic Club 2-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Saturday 23 October 2021, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Athletic Club 2-1 Villarreal: match report
Athletic Club beat Villarreal 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday 23 October 2021. The half-time score was 1-1.
Raúl García opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Athletic Club's goals came from Raúl García (14') and Iker Muniain (77', penalty). Villarreal scored through Francis Coquelin (32').
Discipline: Athletic Club received no yellow cards; Villarreal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Athletic Club were 9th on 13 points from 8 and Villarreal 13th on 11 points from 8. Athletic Club went on to finish that season 8th with 55 points, and Villarreal 7th with 59.
Athletic Club lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Gerónimo Rulli of Villarreal (8.2), ahead of Muniain (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Athletic Club wins, 5 draws and 2 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Athletic Club's last five read W-D-L-D-W and Villarreal's L-W-D-W-D.
Key events
- 14'Goal · Raúl García
- 32'Goal · Francis Coquelin
- 54'Yellow card · Juan Foyth
- 76'Yellow card · Alberto Moreno
- 77'Penalty goal · Iker Muniain
- 80'Yellow card · Pervis Estupiñán
- 82'Missed penalty · Álex Berenguer
Head-to-head
Team news
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Athletic Club line-up (4-4-2)
Unai Simón, Iñigo Lekue, Dani Vivian, Iñigo Martínez, Mikel Balenziaga, Álex Berenguer, Unai Vencedor, Dani García, Muniain, Iñaki Williams, Raúl García
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Gerónimo Rulli, Juan Foyth, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres, Pervis Estupiñán, Yéremy Pino, Dani Parejo, Étienne Capoue, Francis Coquelin, Gerard Moreno, Arnaut Danjuma