Valencia 3-0 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 26 January 2019
Result
Valencia 3-0 Villarreal
La Liga · Saturday 26 January 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Valencia 3-0 Villarreal: match report
Valencia won against Villarreal 3-0 in La Liga on Saturday 26 January 2019. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Mouctar Diakhaby opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Valencia's goals came from Mouctar Diakhaby (4'), Denis Cheryshev (51') and Rodrigo (86'). Villarreal did not score.
Discipline: Valencia received 1 yellow card; Villarreal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valencia were 9th on 26 points from 20 and Villarreal 19th on 18 points from 20. Valencia went on to finish that season 4th with 61 points, and Villarreal 14th with 44.
Valencia lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dani Parejo of Valencia (9.2), ahead of Neto (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Valencia wins, 2 draws and 5 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read W-D-L-W-D and Villarreal's D-L-D-D-D.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Mouctar Diakhaby
- 15'Yellow card · Víctor Ruiz
- 26'Yellow card · Vicente Iborra
- 51'Goal · Denis Cheryshev
- 72'Yellow card · José Gayà
- 76'Yellow card · Mario Gaspar
- 86'Goal · Rodrigo
Head-to-head
Team news
Valencia line-up (4-4-2)
Neto, Cristiano Piccini, Ezequiel Garay, Mouctar Diakhaby, José Gayà, Carlos Soler, Francis Coquelin, Dani Parejo, Denis Cheryshev, Rodrigo, Santi Mina
Villarreal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Sergio Asenjo, Mario Gaspar, Álvaro González, Víctor Ruiz, Jaume Costa, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Manu Trigueros, Santi Cazorla, Pablo Fornals, Alfonso Pedraza, Karl Toko Ekambi