Villarreal 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 7 December 2017
Result
Villarreal 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Europa League · Thursday 7 December 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Villarreal 0-1 Maccabi Tel Aviv: match report
Villarreal lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 7 December 2017. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Nick Blackman of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the 60th minute.
Discipline: Villarreal received no yellow cards; Maccabi Tel Aviv received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 33rd on 11 points from 5 and Maccabi Tel Aviv 4th on 23 points from 13. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Maccabi Tel Aviv in a 3-1-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Dor Micha of Maccabi Tel Aviv (8.3), ahead of Eitan Tibi (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 0 for Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read W-W-D-D-W and Maccabi Tel Aviv's L-L-L-D-L.
Key events
- 14'Yellow card · E. Tibi
- 33'Yellow card · Dor Peretz
- 60'Goal · Nick Blackman
Head-to-head
Team news
Villarreal line-up (4-3-1-2)
Mariano Barbosa, Antonio Rukavina, Genís Montolio, Pau Torres, Adrián Marín, Manu Morlanes, Ramiro Guerra, Roberto Soriano, Chuca, Darío Poveda, Mario González
Maccabi Tel Aviv line-up (3-1-4-2)
Predrag Rajković, Yuval Spungin, Jean-Sylvain Babin, Eitan Tibi, Dor Peretz, Dor Micha, Eyal Golasa, Avi Rikan, Ofir Davidzada, Nick Blackman, Aaron Schoenfeld