Game is over and the final score is Barcelona 0-2 Villarreal. Here is the match report.
2021/2022 La Liga
0-2
Match Report
Barcelona have not ended the 2021/22 league season on the high note that Xavi wanted. Villarreal ended a series of 27 failures to beat the Catalans across all competitions to claim a 2-0 win at Camp Nou.
The visitors took the lead on 41 minutes when Alfonso Pedraza was played into space down the left and stroked the ball past Ter Stegen
But in a peculiar match, the goals came utterly against the run of play.
There was certainly a sense of going through the motions in this one, but while Barça had nothing but honour to play for, which did seem to take the spark of urgency out of their game, Villarreal were chasing European football. And yet from start to finish it was the men in blaugrana shirts who were taking all the initiative.
Before Pedraza’s goal, Barca had been mastering the possession and all of the meaningful football had been played in the yellow half of the pitch, but all it produced was a long series of half-chances, with Ferran Torres particularly in on the action.
None of those were taken and as Barca pushed forward more and more there was always the niggling danger that Villarreal might catch them on the counter… And that’s exactly what happened in the build-up to goal number one.
For the remainder of the game, there was only one other moment when Unai Emery’s side looked even closing to scoring, and that was the one that put them 2-0 on top.
Match Events
0' KICK-OFF! Who can win this match?
6' Rulli denied Ferran Torres' shot
19' Busquets' shot over the bar
33' Ter Stegen denied Pedraza's shot
40' GOAL! Barcelona 0-1 Villarreal (Pedraza)
54' GOAL! Barcelona 0-2 Villarreal (Moi Gómez)
72' OFFSIDE! De Jong's goal disallowed
76' Dembele's shot over the bar
Line-ups
Barcelona XI: D.Alves, Aubameyang, Alba, Busquets, Ter Stegen, Lenglet, Traore, De Jong, Ferran Torres, Ronald Araujo, Gavi
Subs: Luuk de Jong, Braithwaite, Umtiti, Depay, Dembele, L. Carević, Jandro Orellana, Arnau Tenas, Riqui Puig, Óscar Mingueza, Fati, Álex Baldé
Villarreal XI: Albiol, Capoue, Parejo, Gaspar, G. Rulli, Alcacer, Moi Gómez, Trigueros, Lo Celso, Pedraza, P. Torres
Subs: Asenjo, Iborra, Mandi, Aurier, G. Moreno, R.Peña, P. Estupiñán, S. Chukwueze, Iker Álvarez, B. Dia, N. Jackson