Villarreal 2-1 Elche: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 8 March 2026
Result
Villarreal 2-1 Elche
La Liga · Sunday 8 March 2026, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Villarreal 2-1 Elche: match report
Villarreal beat Elche 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 8 March 2026. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Tajon Buchanan opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Villarreal's goals came from Tajon Buchanan (31') and Santiago Mouriño (41'). Elche scored through André Silva (82').
Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Elche received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 4th on 51 points from 26 and Elche 17th on 26 points from 26. Villarreal went on to finish that season 3rd with 72 points, and Elche 13th with 43.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Elche in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Matías Dituro of Elche (7.9), ahead of Pape Gueye (7.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Villarreal wins, 4 draws and 2 for Elche.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read L-W-W-L-W and Elche's D-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Tajon Buchanan
- 41'Goal · Santiago Mouriño
- 43'Yellow card · Alberto Moleiro
- 74'Yellow card · Martim Neto
- 82'Goal · André Silva
- 90+6'Yellow card · André Silva
Head-to-head
Team news
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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Luiz Júnior, Santiago Mouriño, Pau Navarro, Rafa Marín, Sergi Cardona, Tajon Buchanan, Santi Comesaña, Pape Gueye, Alberto Moleiro, Nicolas Pépé, Georges Mikautadze
Elche line-up (3-5-2)
Matías Dituro, Víctor Chust, David Affengruber, Léo Pétrot, Buba Sangaré, Aleix Febas, Marc Aguado, Grady Diangana, Germán Valera, Álvaro Rodríguez, Rafa Mir