FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 1 February 2015
Result
FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Sunday 1 February 2015, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
FC Barcelona 2-1 Villarreal: match report
FC Barcelona defeated Villarreal 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 1 February 2015. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Denis Cheryshev opened the scoring in the 30th minute. FC Barcelona's goals came from Neymar (45'), Rafinha (53') and Lionel Messi (55'). Villarreal scored through Denis Cheryshev (30') and Luciano Vietto (51').
Discipline: FC Barcelona received 1 yellow card; Villarreal received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game FC Barcelona were 2nd on 47 points from 20 and Villarreal 6th on 38 points from 20. FC Barcelona went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and Villarreal 6th with 60.
FC Barcelona lined up in a 4-3-3 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 FC Barcelona wins, 3 draws and 0 for Villarreal.
Going into the match FC Barcelona's last five read W-W-W-L-W and Villarreal's W-W-D-D-W.
Key events
- 23'Yellow card · Bruno
- 30'Goal · Denis Cheryshev
- 41'Yellow card · Jonathan dos Santos
- 45'Goal · Neymar
- 51'Goal · Luciano Vietto
- 53'Goal · Rafinha
- 55'Goal · Lionel Messi
- 63'Yellow card · Rafinha
Head-to-head
Team news
FC Barcelona line-up (4-3-3)
Claudio Bravo, Gerard Piqué, Jordi Alba, Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Rafinha Alcântara, Javier Mascherano, Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi, Neymar
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Sergio Asenjo, Mario Gaspar, Mateo Musacchio, Víctor Ruiz, Jaume Costa, Tomás Pina, Jonathan dos Santos, Denis Cheryshev, Bruno, Luciano Vietto, Giovani Dos Santos