Villarreal 2-0 Getafe: two goals in the last ten minutes end a rough patch
Tajon Buchanan and Carlos Romero scored either side of injury time, in the 80th and 90+1st minutes, to give Villarreal a 2-0 win over Getafe built on 72.4% possession.
Villarreal had to wait until the 80th minute, but once the door opened it opened twice. Tajon Buchanan, set up by substitute Nicolas Pépé, broke the deadlock, and Carlos Romero added a second in stoppage time, finished off an Ayoze Pérez pass, to make the scoreline reflect the 72.4% of the ball Villarreal had held all afternoon.
Dominant, then clinical
Getafe barely got out of their own half for long spells — seven shots on target to Villarreal's one, and only 133 of 219 passes completed, a 60.7% success rate that tells its own story about a team camped in defence. For an hour Villarreal could not turn that control into goals; both subs who eventually combined for the opener, and both who combined for the second, changed that in the space of ten minutes.
| Stat | Villarreal | Getafe |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 72.4% | 27.6% |
| Shots on target | 7 | 1 |
| Corners | 9 | 4 |
| Pass accuracy | 488/566 (86.2%) | 133/219 (60.7%) |
| Fouls committed | 6 | 13 |
| Yellow cards | 2 | 2 |
Line-ups
- Villarreal (4-2-3-1): Péter Gulácsi; Renato Veiga, Logan Costa, Carlos Romero, Santiago Mouriño; Alberto Moleiro, Pape Gueye; Carlos Macià, Georges Mikautadze, Tani Oluwaseyi; Tajon Buchanan.
- Getafe (4-1-4-1): David Soria; Djené, Sebastián Boselli, Nemanja Gudelj, Johan Mojica; Dani Carvajal; Mario Martín, Orel Mangala, Martín Satriano, Andrés García; Enes Ünal.
A result Villarreal badly needed
This was Villarreal's first win since beating Valencia on 24 October. After that result they lost 0-1 to Espanyol in the league and then 0-6 at home to PSG in the Champions League, a defeat that followed an earlier 3-4 loss at Liverpool in the same competition — just one win in their last five matches across all competitions before this one, against three defeats and a draw. Getafe's own recent form had been mixed rather than bad: a win, a draw and a loss in their own last three before this trip to the Cerámica.
Where it leaves both sides
Villarreal jump to 8th on 15 points. Getafe stay 15th on 12 points, with the gap above them narrowing after this trip to the Cerámica came up empty.
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