Villarreal 0-1 Espanyol: result and report

La Liga · Friday 30 October 2026

Result

Villarreal 0-1 Espanyol

La Liga · Friday 30 October 2026, 20:00 UTC · Estadio de la Cerámica, Villarreal · half-time 0-0

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Villarreal 0-1 Espanyol: match report

Villarreal were beaten by Espanyol 0-1 in La Liga on Friday 30 October 2026 at Estadio de la Cerámica. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Leandro Cabrera of Espanyol in the 60th minute.

Discipline: Villarreal received 3 yellow cards; Espanyol received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 10th on 12 points from 10 and Espanyol 18th on 8 points from 10. In the current table Villarreal are 9th on 12 points and Espanyol are 14th on 11 points.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Espanyol in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ángel Fortuño of Espanyol (8.1), ahead of Leandro Cabrera (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 1 for Espanyol.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Rafel BauzàEspanyol
  • 41'Yellow card · Roger HinojoEspanyol
  • 53'Yellow card · Sergi CardonaVillarreal
  • 56'Yellow card · Santi ComesañaVillarreal
  • 60'Goal · Leandro CabreraEspanyol · 0-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Bryan ZaragozaEspanyol
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Carlos MaciàVillarreal

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
9Villarreal113351515012WLDWL
14Espanyol113261314-111LDLLW

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Head-to-head

10 meetings: Villarreal 8, draws 1, Espanyol 1.

Team news

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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Péter Gulácsi, Santiago Mouriño, Pau Navarro, Renato Veiga, Sergi Cardona, Tajon Buchanan, Carlos Macià, Santi Comesaña, Alberto Moleiro, Gerard Moreno, Georges Mikautadze

Espanyol line-up (4-2-3-1)

Ángel Fortuño, Omar El Hilali, Vanja Drkusic, Leandro Cabrera, Roger Hinojo, Edu Expósito, Rafel Bauzà, Alejandro Santiago, Javi Hernández, Bryan Zaragoza, Roberto Fernández

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