Málaga 1-3 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Thursday 17 September 2026

Result

Málaga 1-3 Villarreal

La Liga · Thursday 17 September 2026, 19:30 UTC · Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga · half-time 1-2

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Málaga 1-3 Villarreal: match report

Málaga were beaten by Villarreal 1-3 in La Liga on Thursday 17 September 2026 at Estadio La Rosaleda. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Carlos Dotor opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Málaga's goal came from Carlos Dotor (12'). Villarreal scored through Alberto Moleiro (40'), Pape Gueye (45+2') and Pape Gueye (86', penalty).

Discipline: Málaga received 5 yellow cards; Villarreal received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Málaga were 18th on 3 points from 5 and Villarreal 19th on 2 points from 5. In the current table Málaga are 20th on 5 points and Villarreal are 9th on 12 points.

Málaga lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Pape Gueye of Villarreal (8.6), ahead of Alberto Moleiro (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Málaga wins, 3 draws and 5 for Villarreal.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Carlos DotorMálaga · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · José SalinasMálaga
  • 40'Goal · Alberto MoleiroVillarreal · 1-1
  • 42'Yellow card · Ilias AkhomachVillarreal
  • 45+2'Goal · Pape GueyeVillarreal · 1-2
  • 68'Yellow card · David LarrubiaMálaga
  • 70'Yellow card · Einar GalileaMálaga
  • 79'Yellow card · Ramón EnríquezMálaga
  • 85'Yellow card · Alfonso HerreroMálaga
  • 86'Penalty goal · Pape GueyeVillarreal · 1-3

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
9Villarreal113351515012WLDWL
20Málaga11056821-135LDLDL

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Málaga 2, draws 3, Villarreal 5.

Team news

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Málaga line-up (4-1-4-1)

Alfonso Herrero, Carlos Puga, Ángel Recio, Einar Galilea, José Salinas, Izan Merino, Juan Cruz, David Larrubia, Carlos Dotor, Pablo Martínez, Chupe

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Péter Gulácsi, Alex Freeman, Pau Navarro, Renato Veiga, Sergi Cardona, Ilias Akhomach, Nathan Saliba, Santi Comesaña, Tajon Buchanan, Alberto Moleiro, Ayoze Pérez

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