Espanyol 0-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 20 October 2019
Result
Espanyol 0-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Sunday 20 October 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Espanyol 0-1 Villarreal: match report
Espanyol were beaten by Villarreal 0-1 in La Liga on Sunday 20 October 2019. It was 0-1 at half-time.
The only goal came from Karl Toko Ekambi of Villarreal in the 17th minute.
Discipline: Espanyol received 2 yellow cards; Villarreal received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Espanyol were 19th on 5 points from 8 and Villarreal 10th on 11 points from 8. Espanyol went on to finish that season 20th with 25 points, and Villarreal 5th with 60.
Espanyol lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Villarreal in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Pau Torres of Villarreal (8.1), ahead of Gerard Moreno (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Espanyol wins, 6 draws and 2 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Espanyol's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Villarreal's L-W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Karl Toko Ekambi
- 51'Yellow card · Vicente Iborra
- 90+2'Yellow card · Bernardo Espinosa
- 90+5'Yellow card · Diego López
Head-to-head
Team news
Espanyol line-up (3-4-2-1)
Diego López, Naldo, Bernardo Espinosa, David López, Víctor Gómez, Víctor Sánchez, Marc Roca, Adrià Pedrosa, Sergi Darder, Matías Vargas, Jonathan Calleri
Villarreal line-up (4-3-3)
Sergio Asenjo, Rubén Peña, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres, Alberto Moreno, Frank Anguissa, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Santi Cazorla, Gerard Moreno, Karl Toko Ekambi, Moi Gómez