Villarreal 0-1 Anderlecht: result and report

Europa Conference League · Thursday 16 March 2023

Result

Villarreal 0-1 Anderlecht

Europa Conference League · Thursday 16 March 2023, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Villarreal · Anderlecht · Europa Conference League predictions

Villarreal 0-1 Anderlecht: match report

Villarreal were beaten by Anderlecht 0-1 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday 16 March 2023. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Islam Slimani of Anderlecht in the 73rd minute.

Discipline: Villarreal received 2 yellow cards; Anderlecht received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 12th on 20 points from 9 and Anderlecht 11th on 21 points from 13. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa Conference League season and is kept for reference.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-3-3 and Anderlecht in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Bart Verbruggen of Anderlecht (9.4), ahead of Dani Parejo (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 0 for Anderlecht.

Going into the match Villarreal's last five read D-L-D-W-W and Anderlecht's D-W-L-W-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · A. MurilloAnderlecht
  • 66'Yellow card · Y. VerschaerenAnderlecht
  • 69'Yellow card · Yéremy PinoVillarreal
  • 70'Yellow card · Islam SlimaniAnderlecht
  • 73'Goal · Islam SlimaniAnderlecht · 0-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Jorge CuencaVillarreal
  • 82'Yellow card · Majeed AshimeruAnderlecht

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Villarreal 0, draws 1, Anderlecht 0.

Team news

Villarreal line-up (4-3-3)

Pepe Reina, Juan Foyth, Aïssa Mandi, Jorge Cuenca, Alberto Moreno, Ramón Terrats, Dani Parejo, Álex Baena, Samuel Chukwueze, Gerard Moreno, José Luis Morales

Anderlecht line-up (4-3-3)

Bart Verbruggen, Amir Murillo, Zeno Debast, Jan Vertonghen, Moussa Ndiaye, Yari Verschaeren, Amadou Diawara, Lior Refaelov, Anders Dreyer, Benito Raman, Francis Amuzu