Villarreal 2-1 Celta de Vigo: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 8 March 2015
Result
Villarreal 2-1 Celta de Vigo
La Liga · Sunday 8 March 2015, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Villarreal 2-1 Celta de Vigo: match report
Villarreal beat Celta de Vigo 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 8 March 2015. The half-time score was 2-0.
Giovani Dos Santos opened the scoring in the 41st minute. Villarreal's goals came from Giovani Dos Santos (41'), Mateo Musacchio (45+1'), Luciano Vietto (73') and Gerard Moreno (84'). Celta de Vigo scored through Augusto Fernández (50').
Discipline: Villarreal received no yellow cards; Celta de Vigo received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 6th on 45 points from 25 and Celta de Vigo 12th on 29 points from 25. Villarreal went on to finish that season 6th with 60 points, and Celta de Vigo 10th with 48.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Celta de Vigo in a 5-4-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Villarreal wins, 2 draws and 3 for Celta de Vigo.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read D-W-L-W-L and Celta de Vigo's D-W-W-D-W.
Key events
- 41'Goal · Giovani Dos Santos
- 45+1'Goal · Mateo Musacchio
- 50'Goal · Augusto Fernández
- 73'Goal · Luciano Vietto
- 75'Yellow card · Nolito
- 77'Yellow card · Andreu Fontàs
- 84'Goal · Gerard Moreno
Head-to-head
Team news
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Sergio Asenjo, Mateo Musacchio, Chechu Dorado, Jaume Costa, Antonio Rukavina, Tomás Pina, Joel Campbell, Moi Gómez, Sergio Marcos, Giovani Dos Santos, Gerard Moreno
Celta de Vigo line-up (5-4-1)
Sergio Álvarez, Hugo Mallo, Andreu Fontàs, Jonny Otto, Sergi Gómez Solà, Gustavo Cabral, Nemanja Radoja, Nolito, Augusto Fernández, Charles Días, Fabián Orellana