Villarreal 2-1 Valencia: result and report

La Liga · Sunday 22 February 2026

Result

Villarreal 2-1 Valencia

La Liga · Sunday 22 February 2026, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Villarreal 2-1 Valencia: match report

Villarreal won against Valencia 2-1 in La Liga on Sunday 22 February 2026. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Largie Ramazani opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Villarreal's goals came from Santi Comesaña (31') and Pape Gueye (45+6', penalty). Valencia scored through Largie Ramazani (27', penalty).

Discipline: Villarreal received 2 yellow cards; Valencia received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Villarreal were 3rd on 48 points from 24 and Valencia 16th on 26 points from 24. Villarreal went on to finish that season 3rd with 72 points, and Valencia 9th with 49.

Villarreal lined up in a 4-4-2 and Valencia in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pape Gueye of Villarreal (8.0), ahead of Santi Comesaña (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Villarreal wins, 3 draws and 3 for Valencia.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · Georges MikautadzeVillarreal
  • 27'Penalty goal · Largie RamazaniValencia · 0-1
  • 31'Goal · Santi ComesañaVillarreal · 1-1
  • 38'Yellow card · Largie RamazaniValencia
  • 45'Yellow card · Santiago MouriñoVillarreal
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Javi GuerraValencia
  • 45+6'Penalty goal · Pape GueyeVillarreal · 2-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Unai NúñezValencia
  • 90'Yellow card · Umar SadiqValencia

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Villarreal 4, draws 3, Valencia 3.

Team news

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Villarreal line-up (4-4-2)

Luiz Júnior, Santiago Mouriño, Pau Navarro, Renato Veiga, Sergi Cardona, Nicolas Pépé, Santi Comesaña, Pape Gueye, Alberto Moleiro, Ayoze Pérez, Georges Mikautadze

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

Stole Dimitrievski, Unai Núñez, Eray Cömert, José Copete, Luis Rioja, Javi Guerra, Guido Rodríguez, José Gayà, Filip Ugrinic, Largie Ramazani, Umar Sadiq