Villarreal 2-1 Valencia: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 18 October 2020
Result
Villarreal 2-1 Valencia
La Liga · Sunday 18 October 2020, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Villarreal 2-1 Valencia: match report
Villarreal beat Valencia 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 18 October 2020. The half-time score was 1-1.
Paco Alcácer opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Paco Alcácer (6', penalty) and Dani Parejo (69'). Valencia scored through Gonçalo Guedes (37').
Discipline: Villarreal received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Valencia received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Villarreal were 8th on 8 points from 5 and Valencia 12th on 7 points from 5. Villarreal went on to finish that season 7th with 58 points, and Valencia 13th with 43.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Valencia in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Dani Parejo of Villarreal (8.5), ahead of Alfonso Pedraza (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 3 for Valencia.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read D-W-L-W-D and Valencia's L-W-D-L-W.
Key events
- 6'Penalty goal · Paco Alcácer
- 12'Yellow card · Vicente Iborra
- 37'Goal · Gonçalo Guedes
- 52'Yellow card · Alfonso Pedraza
- 69'Goal · Dani Parejo
- 72'Yellow card · Takefusa Kubo
- 84'Yellow card · Gabriel Paulista
- 90+2'Second yellow · Takefusa Kubo
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Pervis Estupiñán
- Soufiane Chakla
- Gerard Moreno
- Alberto Moreno
- Álex Millán
- Étienne Capoue
- Eliaquim Mangala
- Cristiano Piccini
Villarreal line-up (4-1-4-1)
Sergio Asenjo, Mario Gaspar, Raúl Albiol, Pau Torres, Alfonso Pedraza, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Samuel Chukwueze, Manu Trigueros, Dani Parejo, Moi Gómez, Paco Alcácer
Valencia line-up (4-4-2)
Jaume Doménech, Thierry Correia, Gabriel Paulista, Mouctar Diakhaby, José Gayà, Yunus Musah, Daniel Wass, Carlos Soler, Álex Blanco, Gonçalo Guedes, Maxi Gómez