Villarreal 1-0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 10 March 2016

Result

Villarreal 1-0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Europa League · Thursday 10 March 2016, 20:05 UTC · half-time 1-0

Villarreal · Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Europa League predictions

Villarreal 1-0 Bayer 04 Leverkusen: match report

Villarreal defeated Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 10 March 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Cédric Bakambu opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Cédric Bakambu (4') and Cédric Bakambu (56'). Bayer 04 Leverkusen did not score.

Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Villarreal were 8th on 19 points from 8 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen 100th on 4 points from 2. 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. The highest match rating in our data went to Cédric Bakambu of Villarreal (8.0), level with Kyriakos Papadopoulos (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Villarreal wins, 0 draws and 0 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Cédric BakambuVillarreal · 1-0
  • 14'Yellow card · Jonathan TahBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 48'Yellow card · ChicharitoBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 56'Goal · Cédric BakambuVillarreal · 2-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Manu TriguerosVillarreal
  • 76'Yellow card · T. JedvajBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 90+4'Second yellow · T. JedvajBayer 04 Leverkusen

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Villarreal 2, draws 0, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0.

Team news

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Alphonse Areola, Mario Gaspar, Víctor Ruiz, Antonio Rukavina, Eric Bailly, Manu Trigueros, Denis Suárez, Samu Castillejo, Bruno, Roberto Soldado Rillo, Cédric Bakambu

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

Bernd Leno, Jonathan Tah, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Tin Jedvaj, Wendell, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Julian Brandt, Christoph Kramer, Karim Bellarabi, Javier Hernández Balcázar, Stefan Kießling