Villarreal 2-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 17 March 2011

Result

Villarreal 2-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Europa League · Thursday 17 March 2011, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0

Villarreal · Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Europa League predictions

Villarreal 2-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: match report

Villarreal beat Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 17 March 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Santi Cazorla opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Villarreal's goals came from Santi Cazorla (33') and Giuseppe Rossi (61'). Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored through Eren Derdiyok (82').

Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 9th on 23 points from 11 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7th on 23 points from 11. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Villarreal win, 0 draws and 0 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Going into the match Villarreal's last five read W-D-D-W-W and Bayer 04 Leverkusen's L-W-W-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Yellow card · Stefan ReinartzBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 31'Yellow card · Michal KadlecBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 33'Goal · Santi CazorlaVillarreal · 1-0
  • 61'Goal · Giuseppe RossiVillarreal · 2-0
  • 70'Yellow card · Gonzalo RodríguezVillarreal
  • 75'Yellow card · Daniel SchwaabBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 82'Goal · Eren DerdiyokBayer 04 Leverkusen · 2-1
  • 85'Yellow card · Lars BenderBayer 04 Leverkusen

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Villarreal 1, draws 0, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0.

Team news

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Mateo Musacchio, José Manuel Catalá, Mario Gaspar, Marchena, Santi Cazorla, Borja Valero, Bruno, Marco Ruben, Giuseppe Rossi

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (4-4-2)

René Adler, Domagoj Vida, Michal Kadlec, Stefan Reinartz, Simon Rolfes, Lars Bender, Renato Augusto, Gonzalo Castro, Stefan Kießling, Eren Derdiyok, Sami Hyypia