Villarreal 4-2 Real Zaragoza: result and report
La Liga · Sunday 24 January 2010
Result
Villarreal 4-2 Real Zaragoza
La Liga · Sunday 24 January 2010, 16:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Villarreal 4-2 Real Zaragoza: match report
Villarreal beat Real Zaragoza 4-2 in La Liga on Sunday 24 January 2010. It was 3-0 at half-time.
Capdevila opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Capdevila (4'), Nilmar (19'), Giuseppe Rossi (25') and Ariel Santiago Ibagaza (87'). Real Zaragoza scored through Eliseu (74') and Lafita (81').
Discipline: Villarreal received 1 yellow card; Real Zaragoza received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Villarreal were 10th on 23 points from 18 and Real Zaragoza 19th on 14 points from 18. Villarreal went on to finish that season 7th with 56 points, and Real Zaragoza 14th with 41.
Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Real Zaragoza in a 4-2-3-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 2 for Real Zaragoza.
Going into the match Villarreal's last five read L-D-D-W-W and Real Zaragoza's D-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Capdevila
- 19'Goal · Nilmar
- 25'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
- 36'Yellow card · Gabi
- 49'Yellow card · Carlos Diogo Enseñat
- 64'Yellow card · Leonardo Ponzio
- 67'Yellow card · Santi Cazorla
- 73'Yellow card · Eliseu
- 74'Goal · Eliseu
- 81'Goal · Lafita
- 87'Goal · Ariel Santiago Ibagaza
Head-to-head
Team news
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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)
Diego López, Diego Godín, Joan Capdevila, Ángel López, Iván Marcano, Robert Pirès, Santi Cazorla, Senna, Bruno, Nilmar, Giuseppe Rossi
Real Zaragoza line-up (4-2-3-1)
Juan Pablo Carrizo, Carlos Diogo Enseñat, Paredes, Eliseu, Rubén Pulido, Jorge Lopéz, Ángel Lafita, H. Suazo, Gabi, Jirí Jarosík, Leonardo Ponzio