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Wednesday May 7, 2008 Finished

Recreativo Huelva 0 - Villarreal CF 2

Recreativo de Huelva

Villarreal

  • Kahveci 54’
  • Franco 82’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Recreativo de Huelva
    • Villarreal
    • 90+2' The final whistle goes. Villarreal take the spoils despite a spirited performance from the home side. Stay with us for LIVE coverage of Real Madrid v Barcelona from 21:00 BST.
    • 90+1' Senna's long-range free-kick from the left is straight at Sorrentino.
    • 90' There will be two minutes of injury time.
    • 89' Not long to go now. Recre coach Manolo Zambrano wears a rueful expression on the touchline. His side haven't done much wrong tonight, but they were undone by two goals of real quality.
    • 86' As things stand, and taking into account results elsewhere, this result leaves Recre in the bottom three. Villarreal, meanwhile, are now seven points clear of Barca in the chase for second place.
    • 84' Beto is cautioned for a wild lunge on Cazorla, who's lucky to get out of the way.
    • 83' Villarreal make their third and final substitution, with Giuseppe Rossi coming on for goalscorer Nihat.
    • 82' GOAL! 2-0 Villarreal! An expertly constructed break from the visitors culminates in a low cross from the left by Cazorla that is tapped home via a deflection by Franco!
    • 80' Recre survive the corner and are quickly back on the attack. Ten minutes remain!
    • 79' Cani's dangerous cross from the right just eludes Nihat and is headed behind for a corner at the back post!
    • 78' Guerrero releases Poli with a lovely scooped pass from the left-hand touchline but he can't get his cross in and Villarreal clear.
    • 77' Guerrero appeals for a high foot by Venta on the edge of the Villarreal penalty area but the referee, for once, isn't interested.
    • 76' An edgy moment for Sorrentino! He races to the edge of his penalty area and only just manages to get a touch on the ball ahead of an advancing forward!
    • 74' Recre win another corner on the left, and the crowd are starting to really get behind them now. The corner is half-cleared, helped back into the box, and then cleared again.
    • 72' Chance for Recre! The ball finds Ruben inside the Villarreal box with the visiting defence appealing for offside, and he stabs a shot straight at Lopez!
    • 71' Eguren is cautioned for a tug on Guerrero.
    • 70' Sinama-Pongolle wins a corner on the Recre left after a well-timed sliding challenge from Gonzalo. The corner is only half-cleared and falls to Ruben in the penalty area, and he swivels before sending a half-volley well over the bar from inside 10 yards.
    • 68' Gerard is booked for a foul on Cani. This referee's card-happiness is quite ridiculous. It hasn't been a dirty game by any means.
    • 67' Caceres is penalised for a foul on Senna. Villarreal make their second substitution of the evening, with Matias Fernandez going off for former Recre man Santi Cazorla, who receives a warm reception as he trots on.
    • 65' Recre make a change. Striker Javi Guerrero replaces captain Aitor.
    • 63' Senna finds Fernandez with a delicately lobbed pass down the Villarreal right; the Chilean rather lazily backheels the ball out of play for a throw-in.
    • 62' Good save Lopez! Camunas comes infield from the right onto his left foot and sends in a low curler from 20 yards that Lopez touches around the near post!
    • 61' Poli's shot from the Recre left is straight at Lopez.
    • 60' Villarreal make their first change, with Mexican forward Guillermo Franco replacing Jon Dahl Tomasson. Half an hour to go.
    • 58' Villarreal seeing plenty of the ball now. That goal looks to have knocked the stuffing out of the home side a little.
    • 57' Aitor's inswinging free-kick from the Recre right is headed away, but the whistle had already gone for an infringement by the attacking side.
    • 56' Yet another card, as Venta goes into the book for sliding in on Gerard.
    • 55' Lopez claims a flicked-on free-kick from the Recre right.
    • 54' GOAL! 1-0 Villarreal! Nihat eventually steps up and swings a perfect free-kick over the wall and into the bottom-left corner!
    • 53' Tomasson is booked for protesting that the wall hasn't retreated the full distance.
    • 52' Jesus Vazquez is carded for bringing down Nihat from behind about 25 yards from goal in a central position.
    • 51' Senna wins a free-kick after being caught in midfield.
    • 50' Sinama-Pongolle sprints away from Gonzalo Rodriguez down the Recre left but just over-runs the ball, allowing Lopez to pounce.
    • 48' Caceres concedes a free-kick for bundling Cani over.
    • 47' No changes in personnel for either side at half-time, but will we see a change of attitude from the visitors? They were well below their best in the first period.
    • 46' The second half begins!
    • 45+2' The half-time whistle sounds, after a very scrappy opening 45 that Recreativo have had the better of.
    • 45+1' There will be two minutes of injury time.
    • 45' Sinama-Pongolle just can't keep the ball from going out of play for a Villarreal throw-in on the Recre right.
    • 44' Fernandez is cautioned for a late challenge on Aitor.
    • 43' Nihat's free-kick is blocked by the wall.
    • 42' Bouzon is booked for bringing down Cani on the left-hand edge of the penalty area. Free-kick to the visitors.
    • 41' Camunas runs into trouble, in the form of Matias Fernandez, on the Recre right.
    • 40' Camunas and Godin both stay down after Godin slides in to touch the ball away from his opponent and out for a throw-in on the Recre right.
    • 38' Lopez saves again! Ruben is fed by a pass down the inside-left channel and shoots with his left foot but Lopez races from his line to block!
    • 37' Godin halts Ruben with an impeccably timed challenge on the threshold of the Villarreal penalty area.
    • 36' Recre are firmly in the ascendancy now. Can they nick a goal before half-time?
    • 34' Bouzon's cross from the right takes Sinama-Pongolle completely by surprise and the ball bounces off his shins straight to Lopez! If he'd been able to control that it would have been an almost certain goal.
    • 33' Ruben gets on the end of the ensuing free-kick but his header is well off-target.
    • 32' Gerard wins a free-kick about 10 yards inside the Villarreal half after being caught on the top of the foot by Godin.
    • 31' BRILLIANT SAVE LOPEZ! Sinama-Pongolle gets clear down the Recre left and centres the ball for Ruben, whose close-range shot is blocked at point-blank range by Lopez!
    • 30' Camunas is penalised for a push just inside the Villarreal half.
    • 29' Senna's attempted half-volley from the edge of the Recre penalty area is charged down by a defender.
    • 28' Sinama-Pongolle gets away from his man down the right before sending a shot into the side netting. This is more like it!
    • 27' Recre left-back Poli sends a swerving left-footed half-volley narrowly wide of the left-hand post from 35 yards.
    • 26' OFF THE CROSSBAR! Sinama-Pongolle snatches onto a pass from midfield, beats Godin and cracks in a shot from just outside the box that cannons back off the woodwork!
    • 25' Capdevila finds some room on the visitors' left but his cross is too strong and clears everyone in the Recre penalty area.
    • 24' Senna goes into the book for catching Aitor from behind. If this game was a cartoon dog it would be Scrappy Doo.
    • 23' Nihat clatters into Martin Caceres as the defender attempts to shield the ball out for a Recre goal kick.
    • 22' Sinama-Pongolle's volleyed cross from the right is hacked away.
    • 21' Senna takes a tumble, then two more for good measure, after being tripped by Gerard in midfield. Very bitty here so far.
    • 20' Aitor almost embarrasses Lopez with a cross from the Recre left that goes narrowly wide of the back post!
    • 19' A first attempt on goal! Camunas fires in a low left-footer from about 20 yards but doesn't connect properly and it's straight at Diego Lopez.
    • 18' They're dropping like flies! Barber has obviously picked up some kind of strain - possibly when he kicked out at Nihat - and he is replaced by former Barcelona man Gerard.
    • 16' Sinama-Pongolle makes a big show of rubbing his head after being caught in an aerial challenge with Godin.
    • 15' Senna's long ball from the back is just too long for Nihat, who nonetheless takes a rather comical swipe at the ball even though it drops a good five yards ahead of him.
    • 14' Foolish stuff from Barber! Having been booked only a few minutes ago, he sticks out a leg in a blatant attempt to trip Nihat off the ball and then goes down claiming HE's been fouled! The referee doesn't see it though, so he gets away with it. Tut tut.
    • 13' Javier Camunas swings in an inviting cross from the Recre right that only just eludes two team-mates in the centre!
    • 12' Marco Ruben - who's actually on loan from Villarreal this season - just can't get on the end of a long ball.
    • 11' Cani - surprisingly starting ahead of Robert Pires - concedes a free-kick in midfield.
    • 10' Rafael Barber is cautioned for a late challenge on Villarreal midfielder Sebastian Eguren.
    • 9' Marcos Senna - who scored a quite ludicrous halfway-line lob at Real Betis the weekend before last - is tackled in midfield.
    • 8' Iago Bouzon goes to ground clutching his face and doing that pretending-to-look-for-blood thing after being caught by Jon Dahl Tomasson.
    • 7' Sinama Pongolle lifts a half-volleyed cross onto the roof of the net from the Recre left.
    • 6' A spell of possession for the visitors. Capdevila runs out of room on the left and Recre recover possession.
    • 5' Good pressing from Recre captain Aitor, who blocks an attempted clearance.
    • 4' Sinama-Pongolle and Godin chase after a long ball towards the Villarreal goal, Godin goes to ground and the Frenchman is adjudged to have tripped his opponent.
    • 3' Former Liverpool man Florent Sinama-Pongolle is penalised for a push on Diego Godin deep in the Villarreal half.
    • 2' A thunderous clearance from Villarreal defender Joan Capdevila trickles out for a Recre goal kick, which is taken by their goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino.
    • 1' We're underway!
    • 19:00 The teams are on the pitch, Recre in blue and white striped shirts, white shorts and white socks, visitors Villarreal in their unmistakable all-yellow. It's a beautiful evening here in Andalucia.
    • 18:45 Good evening and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of Recreativo Huelva v Villarreal from the Nuevo Colombino in Huelva. Second-placed Villarreal are looking to extend their four-point advantage over third-placed Barcelona - who travel to the Bernabeu for El Clasico with newly crowned champions Real Madrid later - while a win for Recre will take them further away from the bottom three. Kick-off is at 19:00 BST.

  • Team Stats

    Recreativo de Huelva Stats Villarreal
    43% Possession 56%
    15 Shots 7
    6 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 4
    3 Corners 1
    16 Fouls 28
    1 Offsides 0
    5 Yellow cards 5
    0 Red cards 0
    18 Tackles 14
    203 Accurate passes 308
    51 Bad passes 60

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Recreativo de Huelva
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Stefano Sorrentino 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 1
      5 Iago Bouzón 0 2 0 3 3 0 0 21 2 3
      20 Hipolito Fernández Serrano 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 14 12 3
      4 José Martín Cáceres 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 20 5 2
      22 Roberto Luis Gaspar Deus Severo 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 0 1
      10 Antonio Jesús Vázquez 0 0 0 7 1 0 0 31 10 2
      17 Rafael Barber 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
      21 Aitor Tornavaca 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 9 4 3
      18 Marco Rubén 0 4 3 0 2 0 0 9 4 1
      14 Florent Sinama-Pongolle 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 17 3 0
      8 Javier Camuñas 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 27 5 0
      7 Marcos García Barreno 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0
      25 Mariano Barbosa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      6 Gerard López 0 2 0 3 3 0 0 16 1 1
      23 Francisco Javier Garcia Guerrero 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 2 1
      3 Daniel Bautista Pina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Silvestre Varela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      26 Pablo Oliveira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Villarreal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      13 Diego Lopez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
      2 Javier Gonzalo Rodriguez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 2 2
      5 Joan Capdevila 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 40 20 1
      17 Javi Rodriguez Venta 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 38 0 2
      4 Diego Godin 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 26 8 2
      19 Marcos Senna 0 2 1 2 9 0 0 45 5 2
      23 Sebastian Eguren 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 35 8 1
      14 Matías Fernández 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 22 4 1
      10 Ruben Cani 0 0 0 2 7 0 0 33 3 1
      15 Kahveci Nihat 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 16 2 0
      11 Jon Dahl Tomasson 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 5 0
      9 Guillermo Franco 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 5 0 0
      22 Giuseppe Rossi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
      18 Ángel David López Ruano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Sebastian Viera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      8 Santi Cazorla 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 7 3 2
      12 Pascal Cygan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Robert Pires 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 82' GOAL! 2-0 Villarreal! An expertly constructed break from the visitors culminates in a low cross from the left by Cazorla that is tapped home via a deflection by Franco!
    • 79' Cani's dangerous cross from the right just eludes Nihat and is headed behind for a corner at the back post!
    • 76' An edgy moment for Sorrentino! He races to the edge of his penalty area and only just manages to get a touch on the ball ahead of an advancing forward!
    • 72' Chance for Recre! The ball finds Ruben inside the Villarreal box with the visiting defence appealing for offside, and he stabs a shot straight at Lopez!
    • 62' Good save Lopez! Camunas comes infield from the right onto his left foot and sends in a low curler from 20 yards that Lopez touches around the near post!
    • 54' GOAL! 1-0 Villarreal! Nihat eventually steps up and swings a perfect free-kick over the wall and into the bottom-left corner!
    • 38' Lopez saves again! Ruben is fed by a pass down the inside-left channel and shoots with his left foot but Lopez races from his line to block!
    • 34' Bouzon's cross from the right takes Sinama-Pongolle completely by surprise and the ball bounces off his shins straight to Lopez! If he'd been able to control that it would have been an almost certain goal.
    • 31' BRILLIANT SAVE LOPEZ! Sinama-Pongolle gets clear down the Recre left and centres the ball for Ruben, whose close-range shot is blocked at point-blank range by Lopez!
    • 26' OFF THE CROSSBAR! Sinama-Pongolle snatches onto a pass from midfield, beats Godin and cracks in a shot from just outside the box that cannons back off the woodwork!
    • 20' Aitor almost embarrasses Lopez with a cross from the Recre left that goes narrowly wide of the back post!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Carlos Delgado Ferreiro

  • Recreativo de Huelva

    Manager: Manolo Zambrano

    Captain: 10. Jesús Vázquez

    On the Field

    • Sorrentino
    • Bouzón Yellow Card
    • Beto Yellow Card
    • Cáceres
    • "Poli"
    • Vázquez Yellow Card
    • Barber Yellow Card Substitution Out (17′)
    • Camuñas
    • Tornavaca Substitution Out (65′)
    • Sinama-Pongolle
    • Marco Rubén

    Subs

    • 11. Rosu
    • 6. Gerard Substitution In17′ Yellow Card
    • 23. Guerrero Substitution In65′
    • 9. Martin
    • 3. Bautista
    • 25. Barbosa
    • 19. Varela
    • 30. Oliveira

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None

  • Villarreal

    Manager: Manuel Pellegrini

    Captain: 19. Marcos Senna

    On the Field

    • López
    • Venta Yellow Card
    • Godín
    • Rodríguez
    • Capdevila
    • Senna Yellow Card
    • Eguren Yellow Card
    • Gracia "Cani"
    • Fernández Yellow Card Substitution Out (66′)
    • Kahveci Goal Substitution Out (83′)
    • Tomasson Yellow Card Substitution Out (60′)

    Subs

    • 7. Pires
    • 12. Cygan
    • 3. Josemi
    • 8. Cazorla Substitution In66′
    • 22. Rossi Substitution In83′
    • 18. López Ruano
    • 1. Viera
    • 9. Franco Substitution In60′ Goal

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None