Atlético de Madrid 2-0 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 24 February 2019
Result
Atlético de Madrid 2-0 Villarreal
La Liga · Sunday 24 February 2019, 15:15 UTC · half-time 1-0
Atlético de Madrid 2-0 Villarreal: match report
Atlético de Madrid beat Villarreal 2-0 in La Liga on Sunday 24 February 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.
Álvaro Morata opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Atlético de Madrid's goals came from Álvaro Morata (31') and Saúl Ñíguez (88'). Villarreal did not score.
Discipline: Atlético de Madrid received no yellow cards; Villarreal received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Atlético de Madrid were 2nd on 47 points from 24 and Villarreal 18th on 23 points from 24. Atlético de Madrid went on to finish that season 2nd with 76 points, and Villarreal 14th with 44.
Atlético de Madrid lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Filipe Luís of Atlético de Madrid (8.1), level with Antoine Griezmann (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Atlético de Madrid wins, 3 draws and 5 for Villarreal.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Álvaro Morata
- 66'Yellow card · Álvaro González
- 70'Yellow card · Santiago Cáseres
- 79'Yellow card · Víctor Ruiz
- 88'Goal · Saúl Ñíguez
Head-to-head
Team news
Atlético de Madrid line-up (4-4-2)
Jan Oblak, Santiago Arias, Stefan Savić, José María Giménez, Filipe Luís, Saúl Ñíguez, Koke, Rodri, Thomas Lemar, Antoine Griezmann, Álvaro Morata
Villarreal line-up (3-5-2)
Sergio Asenjo, Álvaro González, Ramiro Funes Mori, Víctor Ruiz, Mario Gaspar, Vicente Iborra de la Fuente, Santiago Cáseres, Santi Cazorla, Alfonso Pedraza, Karl Toko Ekambi, Carlos Bacca