Espanyol 0–2 Villarreal
- Moreno 43'
- Moleiro 57'
8 November 2025
The match in data
Villarreal beat Espanyol 2–0 on 8 November 2025, on matchday 12 of the 2025-26 La Liga.
Player of the match: Alberto Moleiro (Villarreal), rated 66, thanks above all to 0.90 xG and 1 goal. Moleiro produced 1.9 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
It is their 3rd time as player of the match this season.
For Espanyol, the highest-rated player was Omar El Hilali, with 54.
Alberto Moleiro
Villarreal · 83'
Produced 1.95× and cost 0.62× their position's average
- 0.90 xG 3.8×
- 1 goal 4.0×
- 2 shots on target 2.5×
- 2 failed dribbles 1.4×
- 6 misplaced passes 1.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omar El Hilali | Defender | 82 | 54 |
| Pol Lozano | Midfielder | 60 | 54 |
| Kike García | Forward | 30 | 54 |
| Fernando Calero | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Tyrhys Dolan | Forward | 90 | 52 |
| José Salinas | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Ludovic Taillandier | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Urko González de Zárate | Midfielder | 82 | 37 |
| Marko Dmitrovic | Goalkeeper | 90 | 35 |
| Edu Expósito | Midfielder | 71 | 35 |
| Pere Milla | Forward | 71 | 27 |
| Roberto Fernández | Forward | 90 | 26 |
| Charles Pickel | Midfielder | 19 | no rating |
| Jofre Carreras | Forward | 19 | no rating |
| Miguel Rubio | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Rubén Sánchez | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfonso Pedraza | Defender | 90 | 66 |
| Alberto Moleiro ★ | Forward | 83 | 66 |
| Rafa Marín | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Renato Veiga | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Luiz Júnior | Goalkeeper | 90 | 58 |
| Gerard Moreno | Forward | 71 | 58 |
| Thomas Partey | Midfielder | 90 | 50 |
| Tajon Buchanan | Forward | 83 | 50 |
| Santi Comesaña | Midfielder | 74 | 44 |
| Pau Navarro | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Tani Oluwaseyi | Forward | 74 | 28 |
| Nicolas Pépé | Forward | 19 | no rating |
| Ayoze Pérez | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Pape Gueye | Midfielder | 16 | no rating |
| Ilias Akhomach | Forward | 7 | no rating |
| Sergi Cardona | Defender | 7 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Villarreal player made the most tackles?
Alfonso Pedraza, with 6 tackles. Next: Thomas Partey 3, Gerard Moreno 1.
In Villarreal's 2–0 away victory over Espanyol, Alfonso Pedraza set the defensive tone with 6 tackles. Pedraza doubled Thomas Partey's tally of 3 and finished far ahead of Gerard Moreno's 1.
Which Espanyol player made the most tackles?
Tyrhys Dolan, with 5 tackles. Next: Urko González de Zárate 2, José Salinas 2.
Despite Espanyol's 2–0 home defeat to Villarreal, Tyrhys Dolan paced the team's defensive work with 5 tackles. Dolan finished comfortably ahead of Urko González de Zárate and José Salinas, who managed 2 each.
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.
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