Astana 2-3 Villarreal: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017
Result
Astana 2-3 Villarreal
Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Astana 2-3 Villarreal: match report
Astana lost to Villarreal 2-3 in the Europa League on Thursday 23 November 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Junior Kabananga opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Astana's goals came from Junior Kabananga (22') and P. Twumasi (88'). Villarreal scored through Dani Raba (39'), Cédric Bakambu (65') and Cédric Bakambu (83').
Discipline: Astana received 4 yellow cards; Villarreal received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Astana were 57th on 7 points from 4 and Villarreal 50th on 8 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Astana lined up in a 3-4-3 and Villarreal in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Dani Raba of Villarreal (9.8), ahead of Cédric Bakambu (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Astana wins, 0 draws and 3 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Astana's last five read W-W-D-L and Villarreal's W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 22'Goal · Junior Kabananga
- 39'Goal · Dani Raba
- 43'Yellow card · Dmitri Shomko
- 63'Yellow card · Adrián Marín
- 65'Goal · Cédric Bakambu
- 70'Yellow card · Ivan Maevskiy
- 76'Yellow card · Nicola Sansone
- 83'Goal · Cédric Bakambu
- 88'Goal · P. Twumasi
- 90+2'Yellow card · Srdjan Grahovac
- 90+4'Yellow card · Junior Kabananga
Head-to-head
Team news
Astana line-up (3-4-3)
Nenad Erić, Evgeny Postnikov, Yurïý Logvïnenko, Marin Aničić, Igor Shitov, Ivan Mayeuski, Abzal Beysebekov, Dmitriy Shomko, Patrick Twumasi, Junior Kabananga, Serikzhan Muzhikov
Villarreal line-up (4-3-1-2)
Mariano Barbosa, Antonio Rukavina, Daniele Bonera, Víctor Ruiz, Adrián Marín, Dani Raba, Rodri, Manu Trigueros, Pablo Fornals, Carlos Bacca, Nicola Sansone