Villarreal 2-3 Liverpool: result and report
Champions League · Tuesday 3 May 2022
Result
Villarreal 2-3 Liverpool
Champions League · Tuesday 3 May 2022, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Villarreal 2-3 Liverpool: match report
Villarreal were beaten by Liverpool 2-3 in the Champions League on Tuesday 3 May 2022. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Boulaye Dia opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Villarreal's goals came from Boulaye Dia (3') and Francis Coquelin (41'). Liverpool scored through Fabinho (62'), Luis Díaz (67') and Sadio Mané (74').
Discipline: Villarreal received 3 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Liverpool received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Villarreal were 10th on 18 points from 11 and Liverpool 1st on 28 points from 11. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sadio Mané of Liverpool (8.4), ahead of Luis Díaz (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Villarreal win, 0 draws and 2 for Liverpool.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Boulaye Dia
- 41'Goal · Francis Coquelin
- 62'Goal · Fabinho
- 63'Yellow card · Étienne Capoue
- 67'Goal · Luis Díaz
- 74'Goal · Sadio Mané
- 77'Yellow card · Trent Alexander-Arnold
- 81'Yellow card · Giovani Lo Celso
- 85'Yellow card · Pau Torres
- 85'Second yellow · Étienne Capoue
- 86'Second yellow · Étienne Capoue
Head-to-head
Team news
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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Gerónimo Rulli, Juan Foyth, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres, Pervis Estupiñán, Giovani Lo Celso, Dani Parejo, Étienne Capoue, Francis Coquelin, Gerard Moreno, Boulaye Dia
Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)
Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Naby Keïta, Fabinho, Thiago Alcântara, Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota, Sadio Mané