Villarreal 3-0 Sporting Gijón: result and report

La Liga · Monday 23 January 2012

Result

Villarreal 3-0 Sporting Gijón

La Liga · Monday 23 January 2012, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Villarreal · Sporting Gijón · La Liga predictions

Villarreal 3-0 Sporting Gijón: match report

Villarreal won against Sporting Gijón 3-0 in La Liga on Monday 23 January 2012. The half-time score was 0-0.

Marco Ruben opened the scoring in the 57th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Marco Ruben (57'), Borja Valero (59') and Bruno (90+1'). Sporting Gijón did not score.

Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Sporting Gijón received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 19th on 16 points from 18 and Sporting Gijón 18th on 18 points from 18. Villarreal went on to finish that season 18th with 41 points, and Sporting Gijón 19th with 37.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sporting Gijón in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Villarreal wins, 2 draws and 1 for Sporting Gijón.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · Mateo MusacchioVillarreal
  • 26'Yellow card · David BarralSporting Gijón
  • 57'Goal · Marco RubenVillarreal · 1-0
  • 59'Goal · Borja ValeroVillarreal · 2-0
  • 80'Yellow card · BotíaSporting Gijón
  • 90+1'Goal · BrunoVillarreal · 3-0
  • 90+2'Yellow card · CanellaSporting Gijón

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Villarreal 3, draws 2, Sporting Gijón 1.

Team news

Unavailable

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Joan Oriol, Mateo Musacchio, Ángel López, Cani, Senna, Borja Valero, Bruno, Marco Ruben, Joselu Moreno

Sporting Gijón line-up (4-2-3-1)

Juan Pablo, Alberto Botía, Roberto Canella, Castro, Sebastián Eguren Ledesma, Lora, Grégory Arnolin, Nacho Cases, Nacho Novo, Miguel de las Cuevas, David Barral