Villarreal 2-0 Spartak Moskva: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 13 December 2018

Result

Villarreal 2-0 Spartak Moskva

Europa League · Thursday 13 December 2018, 17:55 UTC · half-time 1-0

Villarreal · Spartak Moskva · Europa League predictions

Villarreal 2-0 Spartak Moskva: match report

Villarreal won against Spartak Moskva 2-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 13 December 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Samuel Chukwueze opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Samuel Chukwueze (11') and Karl Toko Ekambi (48'). Spartak Moskva did not score.

Discipline: Villarreal received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Spartak Moskva received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 60th on 7 points from 5 and Spartak Moskva 95th on 5 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Spartak Moskva in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ivelin Popov of Spartak Moskva (8.4), ahead of Karl Toko Ekambi (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Villarreal wins, 1 draw and 0 for Spartak Moskva.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Samuel ChukwuezeVillarreal · 1-0
  • 22'Yellow card · Aleksandr LomovitskiySpartak Moskva
  • 48'Goal · Karl Toko EkambiVillarreal · 2-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Álvaro GonzálezVillarreal
  • 85'Yellow card · Zé LuísSpartak Moskva
  • 90'Red card · Jaume CostaVillarreal
  • 90'Yellow card · Georgiy DzhikiyaSpartak Moskva
  • 90+1'Yellow card · I. KutepovSpartak Moskva
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Andrés FernándezVillarreal

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Villarreal 0, draws 1, Spartak Moskva 0.

Team news

Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Andrés Fernández, Mario Gaspar, Álvaro González, Víctor Ruiz, Jaume Costa, Samuel Chukwueze, Santiago Cáseres, Javi Fuego, Pablo Fornals, Gerard Moreno, Karl Toko Ekambi

Spartak Moskva line-up (4-4-2)

Aleksandr Maksimenko, Nikolay Rasskazov, Ilya Kutepov, Georgiy Dzhikiya, Lorenzo Melgarejo, Aleksandr Lomovitskiy, Ivelin Popov, Denis Glushakov, Sofiane Hanni, Luiz Adriano, José Luís Mendes Andrade