Espanyol 2-2 Villarreal: result and report

Espanyol 2-2 Villarreal

La Liga · Saturday 23 January 2016, 17:15 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Espanyol drew with Villarreal 2-2 in La Liga on Saturday 23 January 2016. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Felipe Caicedo opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Espanyol's goals came from Felipe Caicedo (4') and Gerard Moreno (40'). Villarreal scored through Manu Trigueros (24') and Mateo Musacchio (88').

Discipline: Espanyol received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Villarreal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Espanyol were 13th on 23 points from 20 and Villarreal 4th on 37 points from 20. Espanyol went on to finish that season 16th with 41 points, and Villarreal 5th with 61.

Espanyol lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Pape Diop of Espanyol (7.6), ahead of Gerard Moreno (7.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Espanyol win, 4 draws and 5 for Villarreal.

Going into the match Espanyol's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Villarreal's D-W-D-W-W.