Valencia 3-1 Villarreal: result and report
La Liga · Tuesday 2 January 2024
Result
Valencia 3-1 Villarreal
La Liga · Tuesday 2 January 2024, 20:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
Valencia 3-1 Villarreal: match report
Valencia won against Villarreal 3-1 in La Liga on Tuesday 2 January 2024. The half-time score was 2-0.
Roman Yaremchuk opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Valencia's goals came from Roman Yaremchuk (4'), Pepelu (27', penalty) and Pepelu (57', penalty). Villarreal scored through Gerard Moreno (73').
Discipline: Valencia received 2 yellow cards; Villarreal received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Valencia were 10th on 23 points from 18 and Villarreal 13th on 19 points from 18. Valencia went on to finish that season 9th with 49 points, and Villarreal 8th with 53.
Valencia lined up in a 4-4-2 and Villarreal in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Pepelu of Valencia (8.9), ahead of Ilias Akhomach (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Valencia wins, 1 draw and 4 for Villarreal.
Going into the match Valencia's last five read W-D-L-L-D and Villarreal's W-L-L-D-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Roman Yaremchuk
- 27'Penalty goal · Pepelu
- 37'Yellow card · Eric Bailly
- 38'Yellow card · Marcelino
- 49'Yellow card · Dani Parejo
- 56'Yellow card · Étienne Capoue
- 57'Penalty goal · Pepelu
- 63'Yellow card · José Gayà
- 73'Goal · Gerard Moreno
- 74'Yellow card · Diego Lopez Noguerol
- 80'Yellow card · Ramón Terrats
- 90+2'Yellow card · Jorge Cuenca
Head-to-head
Team news
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Valencia line-up (4-4-2)
Giorgi Mamardashvili, Dimitri Foulquier, Cristhian Mosquera, Gabriel Paulista, José Gayà, Fran Pérez, Hugo Guillamón, Pepelu, Sergi Canós, Hugo Duro, Roman Yaremchuk
Villarreal line-up (4-3-3)
Filip Jørgensen, Adrià Altimira, Raúl Albiol, Jorge Cuenca, Alberto Moreno, Dani Parejo, Étienne Capoue, Ramón Terrats, Ilias Akhomach, Gerard Moreno, José Luis Morales