FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Tuesday 24 September 2019
Result
FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Tuesday 24 September 2019, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal: match report
FC Barcelona won against Villarreal 2-1 in La Liga on Tuesday 24 September 2019. The half-time score was 2-1.
Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring in the 6th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Antoine Griezmann (6') and Arthur (15'). Villarreal scored through Santi Cazorla (44').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 4 yellow cards; Villarreal received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 9th on 7 points from 5 and Villarreal 7th on 8 points from 5. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Villarreal 5th with 60.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Villarreal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Arthur Melo of FC Barcelona (8.2), ahead of Santi Cazorla (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 FC Barcelona wins, 3 draws and 0 for Villarreal.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read L-W-D-W-L and Villarreal's W-W-D-L-D.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Antoine Griezmann
- 15'Goal · Arthur
- 26'Yellow card · Sergi Roberto
- 44'Goal · Santi Cazorla
- 47'Yellow card · Antoine Griezmann
- 72'Yellow card · Frank Anguissa
- 81'Yellow card · Raúl Albiol
- 82'Yellow card · Junior Firpo
- 90'Yellow card · Sergio Busquets
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)
Marc ter Stegen, Nélson Semedo, Gerard Piqué, Clément Lenglet, Junior Firpo, Sergi Roberto, Sergio Busquets, Arthur Melo, Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Antoine Griezmann
Villarreal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Sergio Asenjo, Rubén Peña, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres, Xavi Quintillà, Frank Anguissa, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Samuel Chukwueze, Santi Cazorla, Javi Ontiveros, Gerard Moreno