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Valencia

Villarreal

  • Tomasson 17’
  • Rossi 62’ (pen.)
  • Cazorla 75’

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Valencia
    • Villarreal
    • 90' And there is the final whistle - just an awful, awful night for Valencia - but what a start for Villarreal - thanks for joining us for our coverage.
    • 89' It is game over now - Valencia just want to get off the pitch at this stage.
    • 84' Albiol now goes into book as he man handles Cazorla.
    • 81' This performance by Valencia really leaves a bad taste in the month - Marchena goes as if he is shot after banging into Fernandez. No card shown.
    • 77' All Villarreal now and they could very easily extend their lead before the end now.
    • 73' MAKE THAT THREE - Villarreal have all sorts of room to work the ball from right to left - Fernandez is involved again - he slips it through for Cazorla who slides homes a lovely finish.
    • 72' Ironic cheers from the crowd as Rossi goes in the book for a foul on Albiol - that is the first card tonight for an actual foul.
    • 69' Both sides make a change - Cani on for Pires for Villarreal while Albelda makes way for Sunny on the Valencia side.
    • 68' JOAQUIN HAS BEEN SENT-OFF!!!! A straight red card for dissent - a complete breakdown in discipline from Valencia tonight.
    • 66' Joaquin is the latest Valencia player to stumble in the box. The home crowd feel like they are getting nothing - but in truth the referee is making the right decisions.
    • 63' GOAL - Rossi scores from the spot - nice peno - he just kind of checked which saw Canizares fall to the right and then the Italian-American just placed it to the other side.
    • 61' AND FERNANDEZ HAS WON A PENALTY - He just goes past Marchena down the right who then makes a really clumsy challenge - no question it was a penalty.
    • 60' South American footballer of the year Matias Fernandez comes on for Tomasson - it will be interesting to see this boy in action. He is highly rated - only 21 - a Chilean international. Tomasson it would appear is still struggling a bit from his knock in the first-half.
    • 56' Despite having an extra man - it looks like Villarreal are happy enough to sit back, soak up the pressure, and look to attack on the break. This is working ok for them though - Cygan looks like a rock at the back - not like the shakey defender Arsenal's fans used to know.
    • 50' First couple of chances of the half fall for Villarreal - first Senna had a long rang drive but it was too straight - then Rossi played in Cazorla but his first touch let him down and he could only put in a weak shot on goal.
    • 47' Miguel and Angulo were the two men who went off - and Morientes as just volleyed over from close range but again he was offside.
    • 46' And we are back underway - we will tell you who went off for Valencia ASAP.
    • 46' Valencia changing things at half-time - Galvilan and Morientes have both come on.
    • HT And there is the half-time whistle - lots of boos for the referee as he comes off - but it should be their team that they are booing - the referee has done nothing wrong tonight, the same can not be said about David Villa.
    • 45+2 Villarreal come so close to making it two - Rossi in all kinds of space down the left - he whips in a quick cross and Tomasson just flashes his head at it - it goes JUST WIDE - unlucky from the Dane.
    • 45' Senna tries a shot from distance but it goes straight at Canizares.
    • 45' Angulo now falls in the box looking for a penalty as he claims Fuentes brought him down - but in truth he is prehaps lucky not to have got a yellow card too.
    • 43' Cygan gets in a good block to deny a shot from Joaquin, the ball then fallls to Angulo just six yards out but he is offside.
    • 40' DAVID VILLA HAS BEEN SENT-OFF - He dives in the box looking for a penalty - the referee is having none of it and RIGHTLY sends him off for a second yellow card. FAIR PLAY TO THE REFEREE - he took no nonsense from a superstar in his home ground tonight and Villa got exactly what he deserved.
    • 36' Joaquin whips in another good cross but again it just floats above everybody including Viera in the Villarreal goal.
    • 31' David Villa's bad night at the office continues - he feels he is pulled back by Javi Venta - the referee doesn't agree and give Villa's a yellow card when he dared to protest.
    • 30' The two wounded players are told to change their blood stained shirts and then are eventually allowed to come back on.
    • 27' Marchena and Tomasson are both off received treatment at the moment after a nasty looking clash of heads.
    • 23' A greater sense of urgency about Valencia's play since the goal - Villa has just fired another chance over from just 10 yards out but the flag was up anyway.
    • 19' David Villa flashes another half-chance over and wide - the Spanish internation doesn't quite have his shooting boots on just yet.
    • 16' VILLARREAL HAVE SCORED WITH THEIR FIRST CHANCE - TOMASSON! The Danish striker springs the offside trap to get on the end of Javi Venta's through ball - one-on-one with Canizares he is then as cool as you like as he goes left around the keeper before rolling the ball into the net.
    • 14' First real chance of the game - Viera finds himself in no man's land, Albelda gets to the ball first checks it back to Villa - but he can then only scuff his chance wide.
    • 13' Joaquin shows some great pace to skip down the right win before putting in a low cross, but Viera does very well to dive out and claim the ball.
    • 10' David Villa is gifted a corner - the ball was clearly two yards out before he hit it off a Villarreal player - he scuffs the corner anyway though so his free chance goes to waste.
    • 8' Valencia knocking it around without much effect in these early stages, Villarreal sitting back but Cygan and Senna have already broken up a couple of attacks with a couple of good tackles.
    • 5' Slow start to this game - Valencia had a free kick on the left of the box - Villa really should have crossed but decided to have a shot instead and it goes straight at the wall.
    • 2' Four ex Premiership players in the Villarreal side tonight - Cygan, Tomasson, Pires and of course Rossi - signed from Manchester United to replace another ex-United man Diego Forlan.
    • 1' In case you have not heard Valencia sealed the signing of Manuel Fernandes today under noses of Everton but of course he plays no role in today's proceedings.
    • 1' And we are underway - both these teams are hopeful of having good seasons so this should be a good one.
    • - Welcome to our LIVE coverage of this local derby from the Mestella.

  • Team Stats

    Valencia Stats Villarreal
    45% Possession 54%
    4 Shots 7
    1 Shots on target 6
    0 Saves 0
    5 Corners 0
    12 Fouls 15
    4 Offsides 4
    1 Yellow cards 1
    2 Red cards 0
    16 Tackles 20
    326 Accurate passes 395
    54 Bad passes 78

  • 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
    • Valencia
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Santiago Cañizares 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 12 0 0
      24 Emiliano Moretti 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 33 12 5
      23 Luis Miguel 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 21 0 2
      5 Carlos Marchena 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 35 7 1
      4 Raul Albiol Raul Albiol 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 49 1 0
      8 Rubén Baraja 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 50 11 1
      6 David Albelda 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 23 5 3
      17 Joaquín Joaquín 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 29 0 0
      21 David Silva 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 36 11 2
      10 Miguel Ángel Angulo 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 8 3 0
      7 David Villa 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 4 3 0
      12 Marco Caneira 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      25 Timo Hildebrand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      11 Jaime Gavilán Martínez 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 9 1 0
      20 Delgado Alexis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Fernando Morientes 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10 0 1
      18 Stephen Sunday 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 1
      15 Ivan Helguera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Villarreal
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Sebastian Viera 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 0
      20 Fabricio Fuentes 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 30 2 4
      5 Joan Capdevila 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 18 2
      17 Javi Rodriguez Venta 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 45 3 3
      12 Pascal Cygan 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 38 9 0
      6 Josico Josico 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 42 10 2
      19 Marcos Senna 0 2 2 3 2 0 0 50 5 6
      8 Santi Cazorla 1 2 2 2 1 0 0 48 21 2
      7 Robert Pires 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 36 1 1
      22 Giuseppe Rossi 1 1 1 2 3 1 0 15 5 0
      11 Jon Dahl Tomasson 1 2 1 2 0 1 0 14 3 0
      10 Ruben Cani 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
      21 Bruno Llido 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Diego Godin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Kahveci Nihat 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0
      3 Josemi Josemi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      14 Matías Fernández 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 12 0 0
      13 Diego Lopez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 73' MAKE THAT THREE - Villarreal have all sorts of room to work the ball from right to left - Fernandez is involved again - he slips it through for Cazorla who slides homes a lovely finish.
    • 68' JOAQUIN HAS BEEN SENT-OFF!!!! A straight red card for dissent - a complete breakdown in discipline from Valencia tonight.
    • 63' GOAL - Rossi scores from the spot - nice peno - he just kind of checked which saw Canizares fall to the right and then the Italian-American just placed it to the other side.
    • 50' First couple of chances of the half fall for Villarreal - first Senna had a long rang drive but it was too straight - then Rossi played in Cazorla but his first touch let him down and he could only put in a weak shot on goal.
    • 45+2 Villarreal come so close to making it two - Rossi in all kinds of space down the left - he whips in a quick cross and Tomasson just flashes his head at it - it goes JUST WIDE - unlucky from the Dane.
    • 40' DAVID VILLA HAS BEEN SENT-OFF - He dives in the box looking for a penalty - the referee is having none of it and RIGHTLY sends him off for a second yellow card. FAIR PLAY TO THE REFEREE - he took no nonsense from a superstar in his home ground tonight and Villa got exactly what he deserved.
    • 16' VILLARREAL HAVE SCORED WITH THEIR FIRST CHANCE - TOMASSON! The Danish striker springs the offside trap to get on the end of Javi Venta's through ball - one-on-one with Canizares he is then as cool as you like as he goes left around the keeper before rolling the ball into the net.
    • 14' First real chance of the game - Viera finds himself in no man's land, Albelda gets to the ball first checks it back to Villa - but he can then only scuff his chance wide.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Miguel Angel Perez Lasa

  • Valencia

    Manager: Quique Sánchez Flores

    On the Field

    • Cañizares
    • Miguel
    • Albiol
    • Marchena
    • Moretti
    • Albelda
    • Baraja
    • Joaquín
    • Silva
    • Morientes
    • Villa

    Subs

    • 15. Helguera
    • 25. Hildebrand
    • 10. Angulo
    • 12. Caneira
    • 11. Gavilán
    • 20. Alexis
    • 18. Sunday

    Injured

    • 22. Gaspar "Edu"
    • 2. Zigic
    • 14. Rodríguez

    Suspended

    None

  • Villarreal

    Manager: Manuel Pellegrini

    On the Field

    • Viera
    • Venta
    • Fuentes
    • Cygan
    • Capdevila
    • Moreno "Josico"
    • Senna
    • Cazorla
    • Pires
    • Tomasson
    • Rossi

    Subs

    • 15. Kahveci
    • 3. Josemi
    • 10. Gracia "Cani"
    • 13. López
    • 21. Bruno
    • 14. Fernández
    • Godín

    Injured

    • 2. Rodríguez

    Suspended

    None