Villarreal 5-1 Espanyol: result and report

Villarreal 5-1 Espanyol

La Liga · Sunday 27 February 2022, 13:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Villarreal defeated Espanyol 5-1 in La Liga on Sunday 27 February 2022. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Yéremy Pino opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Yéremy Pino (14'), Yéremy Pino (20'), Yéremy Pino (45'), Yéremy Pino (53') and Boulaye Dia (86'). Espanyol scored through Keidi Bare (65').

Discipline: Villarreal received 2 yellow cards; Espanyol received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Villarreal were 6th on 39 points from 25 and Espanyol 13th on 29 points from 25. Villarreal went on to finish that season 7th with 59 points, and Espanyol 14th with 42.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Espanyol in a 4-3-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Yéremy Pino of Villarreal (10.0), ahead of Pervis Estupiñán (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Villarreal wins, 6 draws and 2 for Espanyol.

Going into the match Villarreal's last five read W-D-W-W-L and Espanyol's D-D-L-L-D.