A proud Villarreal dies on the beach and says goodbye to Europe

Villarreal left Europe with pride. He died this Thursday at the shore with his last breath on eliminated from the Europa League at the hands of Olympique de Marseille. He paid dearly for 4-0 in the first leg, a heavy burden, but He died this Thursday with his head held high. Well, he managed to score up to 3 goals, grab the fourth and draw. But a goal in Clauss last breath after a great Aubameyang’s genius freezes Ceramics and ‘killed’ the hope of a Villarreal who was superior to the Gauls and cherished the miracle until the end. Villarreal went down with their heads held high after a ‘chapeau’ match but were sent off to Europe after a poor first leg performance. Capoué, Sorloth and Mosquera signed the yellow dinas who dreamed of groguets, but Claus crushed the possible return.

The yellow eleven surprised at the start of an Olympique de Marseille that came out in a massive mode, certainly the disguise that the Submarine should wear. So at minute 2, Jorgensenthe starter between the sticks at Villarreal for Reina’s wound In the warm-up, he scored a sneaking Olympic goal with a miraculous hand. After fear, Marcelino’s team is launched in pursuit of the miracle of football.

And he was the star of the match, harassing a French eleven that barely left its spot. Sorloth gave the first warning (9′). but Mbemba He cleared the ball too much. Guedes and Sorloth again They had the goal before the first 20 minutes of a Villarreal released with a Gerard Moreno capitalized the attack. Although another former parakeet, Marseille’s goalkeeper Pau Lopezwas successful despite the pressure and demolition of the ‘groguets’.

The Submarine is pressed and the objective is missed, you can see that it is coming because of the local power. And he fell in the 32nd minute thanks to a Capoué chopped header to open the melon and the hope of a crowd that believes in the miracle of the return. Although the local eleven slowed down in the last quarter before the break Capoué, Very inspired, he had second place in his boots but ended up in remission.

At the start Villarreal came out with the same script soaked. And the Olympique coach, who did not like the game of his team, moved his chips. And one of those who entered was Aubameyang, with a verdict in the 48th minute but he missed a very clear chance to score.

Villarreal went back to what they did, a harassment and demolition in pursuit of a destruction. Eric Bailly is injured, but the Submarine was not damaged and continued to bite. And in the 55th minute he got the right reward. Sorloth He flew in like a flash and finished well, but the goal was preceded by several minutes of hesitation, which VAR took to validate it. The score increased to 2-0 and Cerámica was dreamingbelieve in the return with only half an hour left.

They followed squeezing Marcelino’s but as the minutes passed, it was difficult for them to suppress the French, who were well equipped at the back. Even Goalkeeper Pau López saved Olympique in the 73rd minute with a save from a header by Gerard Moreno which is sung to a dedicated crowd with faith in the miracle.

Marcelino moved the bench, deploys more gunpowder, up to four forwards. And the third fell. Baena He put in a great free-kick center and a brutal headbutt from Mosquera It made it 3-0 in the 86th minute and continued to feed the faith in the miracle. ‘Yes, we can’ began to echo through the stands, causing the French defense to tremble.

Mandi is the fourth and the stands suffered from what was not written, especially when the referee decided a stoppage time of only five minutes, clearly short because a lot of time was lost in the goal which was confirmed by VAR.

Morales He also touched the glory of a blast that was destroyed Pau Lopez. And then he got it Gerard Moreno, who deserved the goal for his great game. But the bucket of cold water fell for the Submarine, who He died on the shore because of Clauss’ goal in the last breath, La Cerámica cooled off for the final 3-1. No miracle but Villarreal said goodbye to Europe with their heads held high.

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Villarreal: Jorgensen; Kiko Femenía (Morales, min. 83), Bailly (Mosquera, min. 50), Mandi, Cuenca; Coquelin (Baena, min. 66), Capoue (Comesaña, min. 83), Parejo, Guedes, Sorloth and Gerard Moreno.

Olympique de Marseille: Pau López; Meite, Mbemba, Balerdi, Merlin; Clauss, Kondogbia, Ounahi (Luiz Henrique, min. 78), Varetout, Ddiaye (Harit, min. 46) and Sarr (Aubameyang, min. 46).

Goals: 1-0, min. 31: Capoue. 2-0, min. 55: Sorloth. 3-0, min. 85. Mosquera. 3-1, min. 93: Clauss.

Referee: Istvan Kovacs (Romania). He showed yellow cards to Sarr, Ounahi, Merlin, Kondogbia and Pau López for Olympique de Marseille, and to Baena, and Marcelino, coach, for Villarreal.

Incidents: The second leg match of the round of 16 of the European League was played at the La Cerámica stadium in Vila-real before 15,378 spectators, 1,200 from the Marseille team.

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