Valencia 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 18 October 2006
Result
Valencia 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
Champions League · Wednesday 18 October 2006, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-0
Valencia 2-0 Shakhtar Donetsk: match report
Valencia beat Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 18 October 2006. It was 2-0 at half-time.
David Villa opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Valencia's goals came from David Villa (31') and David Villa (45'). Shakhtar Donetsk did not score.
Discipline: Valencia received 1 yellow card; Shakhtar Donetsk received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Valencia were 9th on 9 points from 4 and Shakhtar Donetsk 18th on 7 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read W-W-W-L and Shakhtar Donetsk's D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 1'Yellow card · Vyacheslav Svidersky
- 31'Goal · David Villa
- 33'Yellow card · Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
- 42'Yellow card · Albelda
- 45'Goal · David Villa
- 58'Yellow card · Ciprian Marica
- 62'Yellow card · Brandão
- 76'Second yellow · Vyacheslav Svidersky
Team news
Valencia line-up
Cañizares, Miguel, David Navarro, Raúl Albiol, Emiliano Moretti, Edu Gaspar, David Villa, Morientes, Joaquín, Albelda, Mario Regueiro Pintos
Shakhtar Donetsk line-up
Stipe Pletikosa, Leonardo, Razvan Rat, Dmytro Chygrynskiy, Vyacheslav Svidersky, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Fernandinho, Francesco Matuzalem, Julius Aghahowa, Ciprian Marica, Jadson