Valencia 3-3 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 10 January 2009
Result
Valencia 3-3 Villarreal
La Liga · Saturday 10 January 2009, 21:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Valencia 3-3 Villarreal: match report
Valencia drew with Villarreal 3-3 in La Liga on Saturday 10 January 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.
Rubén Baraja opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Valencia's goals came from Rubén Baraja (1'), David Villa (9') and Edu Gaspar (78'). Villarreal scored through Fabricio Fuentes (45+1'), Llorente (76') and Giuseppe Rossi (83', penalty).
Discipline: Valencia received 1 yellow card; Villarreal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valencia were 3rd on 33 points from 17 and Villarreal 7th on 29 points from 17. Valencia went on to finish that season 6th with 62 points, and Villarreal 5th with 65.
Valencia lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Valencia win, 1 draw and 4 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read W-L-W-L-W and Villarreal's L-L-L-D-W.
Key events
- 1'Goal · Rubén Baraja
- 9'Goal · David Villa
- 20'Yellow card · Sebastián Eguren Ledesma
- 45+1'Goal · Fabricio Fuentes
- 49'Yellow card · Bruno
- 52'Yellow card · Rubén Baraja
- 59'Yellow card · Fabricio Fuentes
- 76'Goal · Llorente
- 78'Goal · Edu Gaspar
- 83'Penalty goal · Giuseppe Rossi
Head-to-head
Team news
Valencia line-up (4-2-3-1)
Renan, Raúl Albiol, Emiliano Moretti, Marchena, Juan Mata, Manuel Fernandes, David Silva, David Villa, Joaquín, Albelda, Rubén Baraja
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Diego Godín, Joan Capdevila, Ángel López, Sebastián Eguren Ledesma, Santi Cazorla, Ariel Ibagaza, Bruno, Llorente, Giuseppe Rossi