Villarreal 2-2 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 8 January 2012
Result
Villarreal 2-2 Valencia
La Liga · Sunday 8 January 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Villarreal 2-2 Valencia: match report
Villarreal drew with Valencia 2-2 in La Liga on Sunday 8 January 2012. The half-time score was 2-1.
Marco Ruben opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Marco Ruben (14') and Gonzalo Rodríguez (18'). Valencia scored through Sofiane Feghouli (41') and Aduriz (87').
Discipline: Villarreal received 5 yellow cards; Valencia received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 18th on 15 points from 16 and Valencia 3rd on 33 points from 16. Villarreal went on to finish that season 18th with 41 points, and Valencia 3rd with 61.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Valencia in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Villarreal wins, 2 draws and 3 for Valencia.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read L-D-L-L-W and Valencia's W-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 14'Goal · Marco Ruben
- 18'Goal · Gonzalo Rodríguez
- 22'Yellow card · Bruno
- 22'Yellow card · Cani
- 25'Yellow card · Jonas
- 33'Yellow card · Cristián Zapata
- 35'Yellow card · Roberto Soldado
- 36'Yellow card · Joan Oriol
- 41'Goal · Sofiane Feghouli
- 70'Yellow card · É. Banega
- 74'Yellow card · Miguel
- 74'Yellow card · Marco Ruben
- 87'Goal · Aduriz
Head-to-head
Team news
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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Joan Oriol, Ángel López, Cristián Zapata, Cani, Senna, Borja Valero, Bruno, Nilmar, Marco Ruben
Valencia expected line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jérémy Mathieu, Ricardo Costa, Tino Costa, Pablo Hernández, Éver Banega, Aritz Aduriz, Joaquín, Mehmet Topal