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LaLiga 2025/26 · Matchday 23 · Estadio de la Cerámica (Villarreal)

Villarreal4:1Espanyol

9 February 2026 · 16,825 in the ground · Javier Alberola Rojas

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Villarreal4-4-2
Espanyol4-2-3-1
Júnior6.7S. Cardona6.2Veiga7.0Navarro6.6Mouriño6.5Moleiro8.0Parejo6.7P. Gueye6.3Buchanan7.1Mikautadze8.6Pepe8.0Dmitrović4.7J. Salinas4.9Cabrera7.0Calero5.9El Hilali5.8Lozano7.2Urko7.2Dolan6.7Expósito5.9Milla7.2Fernández6.3
from the bench

match pulse — xG per 5 minutes · goals · cards

4590villarrealespanyol

goals — hover the strip for every shot and card, with names

  • 35MikautadzeGoal · 0.20 xG · 0.20 xG
  • 41J. SalinasGoal · 0.00 xG
  • 50PepeGoal · 0.15 xG · 0.15 xG
  • 55MoleiroGoal · 0.09 xG · 0.09 xG
  • 88CabreraGoal · 0.10 xG · 0.10 xG

The shots, as they came

Every attempt, sized by expected goals

Villarreal 0:0 Espanyol0'kickoff
6' Buchanan — xG 0.04 · Blocked7' Buchanan — xG 0.03 · Missed9' Mikautadze — xG 0.07 · Missed23' Moleiro — xG 0.03 · Blocked24' Buchanan — xG 0.10 · Missed31' Expósito — xG 0.25 · Missed34' Dolan — xG 0.03 · Missed35' Mikautadze — xG 0.20 · Goal40' Expósito — xG 0.02 · Blocked41' J. Salinas — xG 0.00 · Goal50' Pepe — xG 0.15 · Goal55' Moleiro — xG 0.09 · Goal64' Pepe — xG 0.02 · Blocked66' S. Cardona — xG 0.03 · Missed68' Kike — xG 0.03 · Missed81' Pickel — xG 0.02 · Blocked87' Lozano — xG 0.03 · Saved88' Cabrera — xG 0.10 · Goal90' Ngonge — xG 0.04 · Missed90 + 3' Ngonge — xG 0.01 · Missed

The xG race

Expected goals accumulating minute by minute

The xG race — cumulative expected goals, minute by minute

Villarreal 0:0 Espanyol
0.5015304560759035' Mikautadze — GOAL41' J. Salinas — GOAL50' Pepe — GOAL55' Moleiro — GOAL88' Cabrera — GOAL0.760.53

Territory

Where each side actually occupied the pitch, summed from every player’s heatmap

Villarreal attacking right · Espanyol attacking left · where both glow, the pitch was contested

The duel

Villarreal vs Espanyol

49%
Possession
51%
0.77
Expected goals
0.51
10
Shots
9
3
Shots on target
2
3
Big chances created
1
378
Passes completed
374
62
Into final third
83
46
Duels won
41
6/10 (60%)
Tackles won
8/13 (62%)
5
Corners
8
18
Fouls
11

No physical or tracking data for league matches — that tier is FIFA-only. Everything above is from the public match feed.