FC Barcelona 2-0 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 2 December 2018
Result
FC Barcelona 2-0 Villarreal
La Liga · Sunday 2 December 2018, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
FC Barcelona 2-0 Villarreal: match report
FC Barcelona beat Villarreal 2-0 in La Liga on Sunday 2 December 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Eric Guérit opened the scoring in the 35th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Eric Guérit (35') and Carles Aleñá (87'). Villarreal did not score.
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 2 yellow cards; Villarreal received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 2nd on 25 points from 13 and Villarreal 17th on 14 points from 13. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Villarreal 14th with 44.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Villarreal in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Gerard Piqué of FC Barcelona (8.6), level with Lionel Messi (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 FC Barcelona wins, 2 draws and 0 for Villarreal.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read D-L-W-W-W and Villarreal's W-D-D-L-D.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Víctor Ruiz
- 18'Yellow card · Clément Lenglet
- 26'Yellow card · Álvaro González
- 35'Goal · Eric Guérit
- 69'Yellow card · Jordi Alba
- 87'Goal · Carles Aleñá
- 90'Yellow card · Pablo Fornals
- 90+1'Yellow card · Alfonso Pedraza
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona line-up (4-1-4-1)
Marc ter Stegen, Nélson Semedo, Gerard Piqué, Clément Lenglet, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Ousmane Dembélé, Ivan Rakitić, Arturo Vidal, Philippe Coutinho, Lionel Messi
Villarreal line-up (4-5-1)
Sergio Asenjo, Mario Gaspar, Álvaro González, Víctor Ruiz, Alfonso Pedraza, Samuel Chukwueze, Manu Trigueros, Santiago Cáseres, Santi Cazorla, Pablo Fornals, Gerard Moreno