Real Madrid 3-3 Villarreal: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 7 May 2006

Result

Real Madrid 3-3 Villarreal

La Liga · Sunday 7 May 2006, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Real Madrid 3-3 Villarreal: match report

Real Madrid drew with Villarreal 3-3 in La Liga on Sunday 7 May 2006. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Júlio Baptista opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Real Madrid's goals came from Júlio Baptista (22'), Zinédine Zidane (66') and Júlio Baptista (88'). Villarreal scored through an own goal by Álvaro Mejía (30'), Diego Forlán Corazo (38') and Diego Forlán Corazo (85', penalty).

Discipline: Real Madrid received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Villarreal received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Real Madrid were 2nd on 69 points from 36 and Villarreal 9th on 53 points from 36. Real Madrid went on to finish that season 2nd with 70 points, and Villarreal 7th with 57.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Real Madrid wins, 1 draw and 0 for Villarreal.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Júlio BaptistaReal Madrid · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · RobinhoReal Madrid
  • 30'Own goal · Álvaro MejíaVillarreal · 1-1
  • 32'Yellow card · Juan Pena MontanoVillarreal
  • 34'Yellow card · P. GarcíaReal Madrid
  • 38'Goal · Diego Forlán CorazoVillarreal · 1-2
  • 43'Yellow card · Guillermo Franco FarquarsonVillarreal
  • 55'Yellow card · Alessio TacchinardiVillarreal
  • 66'Goal · Zinédine ZidaneReal Madrid · 2-2
  • 68'Yellow card · GutiReal Madrid
  • 70'Yellow card · Mariano BarbosaVillarreal
  • 77'Yellow card · CasillasReal Madrid
  • 81'Yellow card · R. ArruabarrenaVillarreal
  • 84'Red card · Sergio RamosReal Madrid
  • 85'Penalty goal · Diego Forlán CorazoVillarreal · 2-3
  • 88'Goal · Júlio BaptistaReal Madrid · 3-3

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Real Madrid 0, draws 1, Villarreal 0.

Team news

Real Madrid line-up

Iker Casillas, Míchel Salgado, Roberto Carlos, Sergio Ramos, Alvaro Mejia, Robinho, David Beckham, Júlio Baptista, Zinédine Zidane, Raúl, Pablo Gabriel García Pérez

Villarreal line-up

Mariano Barbosa, Enrique Alvarez San Juan, Javi Venta, Juan Pena Montano, Juan Román Riquelme, Senna, Guillermo Franco Farquarson, José Marí, Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Diego Forlán Corazo, Alessio Tacchinardi