Deportivo A Coruña 0-2 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 18 May 2008

Result

Deportivo A Coruña 0-2 Villarreal

La Liga · Sunday 18 May 2008, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Deportivo A Coruña · Villarreal · La Liga predictions

Deportivo A Coruña 0-2 Villarreal: match report

Deportivo A Coruña lost to Villarreal 0-2 in La Liga on Sunday 18 May 2008. The half-time score was 0-1.

Matías Fernández opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Deportivo A Coruña did not score. Villarreal scored through Matías Fernández (34') and Guillermo Franco Farquarson (90+1').

Discipline: Deportivo A Coruña received 1 yellow card; Villarreal received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Deportivo A Coruña were 8th on 52 points from 37 and Villarreal 2nd on 74 points from 37. Deportivo A Coruña went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Villarreal 2nd with 77.

Deportivo A Coruña lined up in a 5-4-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Deportivo A Coruña wins, 1 draw and 2 for Villarreal.

Going into the match Deportivo A Coruña's last five read L-W-L-W-W and Villarreal's W-W-W-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 34'Goal · Matías FernándezVillarreal · 0-1
  • 50'Yellow card · Sebastián Eguren LedesmaVillarreal
  • 64'Yellow card · Christian WilhelmssonDeportivo A Coruña
  • 74'Yellow card · BrunoVillarreal
  • 90+1'Goal · Guillermo Franco FarquarsonVillarreal · 0-2

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Deportivo A Coruña 2, draws 1, Villarreal 2.

Team news

Deportivo A Coruña line-up (5-4-1)

Dudú Aouate, Manuel Pablo, Filipe Luís, Alberto Lopo, Pablo Amo, Christian Wilhelmsson, Ángel Lafita, Xisco, Fabricio Coloccini, Julián de Guzmán, Sergio

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Joan Capdevila, Pascal Cygan, Ángel López, Santi Cazorla, Matías Fernández, Bruno, Sebastián Eguren Ledesma, Guillermo Franco Farquarson, Jon Dahl Tomasson