Racing Santander 0-2 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Wednesday 26 September 2007
Result
Racing Santander 0-2 Villarreal
La Liga · Wednesday 26 September 2007, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Racing Santander 0-2 Villarreal: match report
Racing Santander were beaten by Villarreal 0-2 in La Liga on Wednesday 26 September 2007. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Nihat Kahveci opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Racing Santander did not score. Villarreal scored through Nihat Kahveci (40', penalty) and Giuseppe Rossi (76').
Discipline: Racing Santander received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Villarreal received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Racing Santander were 15th on 5 points from 4 and Villarreal 2nd on 9 points from 4. Racing Santander went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Villarreal 2nd with 77.
Racing Santander lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Racing Santander wins, 0 draws and 2 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Racing Santander's last five read L-W-D-D and Villarreal's W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Senna
- 40'Penalty goal · Nihat Kahveci
- 50'Yellow card · Cani
- 54'Yellow card · Sebastián Viera
- 62'Red card · Aldo Duscher
- 72'Yellow card · Pascal Cygan
- 76'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
Head-to-head
Team news
Racing Santander line-up (4-4-2)
Toño, Oriol, Ezequiel Garay, Pinillos, Aldo Duscher, Jorge Lopéz, Colsa, Serrano, Ebi Smolarek, Munitis, Luis Fernández
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Sebastián Viera, Joan Capdevila, Pascal Cygan, Ángel López, Fabricio Fuentes, Cani, Matías Fernández, Senna, Nihat Kahveci, Giuseppe Rossi, Josico