Villarreal 2-1 Real Sociedad: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 23 January 2011
Result
Villarreal 2-1 Real Sociedad
La Liga · Sunday 23 January 2011, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Villarreal 2-1 Real Sociedad: match report
Villarreal won against Real Sociedad 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 23 January 2011. The half-time score was 1-1.
Aranburu opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Giuseppe Rossi (41') and Giuseppe Rossi (47'). Real Sociedad scored through Aranburu (30').
Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Real Sociedad received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 4th on 39 points from 19 and Real Sociedad 11th on 25 points from 19. Villarreal went on to finish that season 4th with 62 points, and Real Sociedad 15th with 45.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Real Sociedad in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 2 for Real Sociedad.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read W-L-W-W-L and Real Sociedad's W-L-L-L-L.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Cani
- 30'Goal · Aranburu
- 32'Yellow card · Xabi Prieto
- 41'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
- 47'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
- 60'Yellow card · Aranburu
- 63'Yellow card · J. Sarpong
- 77'Yellow card · Mikel González
Head-to-head
Team news
Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Mateo Musacchio, Joan Capdevila, Mario Gaspar, Santi Cazorla, Cani, Borja Valero, Bruno, Marco Ruben, Giuseppe Rossi
Real Sociedad line-up (4-2-3-1)
Claudio Bravo, Dejan Stanković, Mikel Labaka Zurriarain, Ion Ansotegi, Daniel Estrada, Markel Bergara, Xabi Prieto, Aranburu, Diego Rivas, Antoine Griezmann, Llorente