Villarreal 1-0 Espanyol: result and report
La Liga · Saturday 7 March 2009
Result
Villarreal 1-0 Espanyol
La Liga · Saturday 7 March 2009, 21:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Villarreal 1-0 Espanyol: match report
Villarreal beat Espanyol 1-0 in La Liga on Saturday 7 March 2009. The half-time score was 1-0.
The only goal came from Fabricio Fuentes of Villarreal in the 20th minute.
Discipline: Villarreal received 3 yellow cards; Espanyol received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 4th on 42 points from 25 and Espanyol 19th on 21 points from 25. Villarreal went on to finish that season 5th with 65 points, and Espanyol 10th with 47.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Espanyol in a 4-1-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Villarreal wins, 3 draws and 1 for Espanyol.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read D-W-D-W-L and Espanyol's L-W-L-D-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Fabricio Fuentes
- 36'Yellow card · Ángel López
- 65'Yellow card · Diego Godín
- 74'Yellow card · Guillermo Franco Farquarson
Head-to-head
Team news
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Diego Godín, Joan Capdevila, Ángel López, Fabricio Fuentes, Santi Cazorla, Cani, Ariel Ibagaza, Senna, Nihat Kahveci, Llorente
Espanyol line-up (4-1-4-1)
Carlos Kameni, Javi Chica, David García, Sergio Sánchez, Nicolás Pareja, Dani Jarque, De la Peña, Milan Smiljanić, Nenê, Luis Garcia, Raúl Tamudo