• Classification: Villarreal, in the noble zone

Javier Ontiveros starred against Valladolid his first big day dressed in yellow. The Marbellí perfectly fulfilled what a revulsive is asked for and exercised as such to give the victory to Villarreal, the first of the course before his fans. When the game called for a march, Ontiveros gave it to break the wall of the Pucelano team and give his team the three points causing the penalty that opened the scoring and signing the sentence himself at sunset.

Calleja asked for patience in the previous to unravel the defensive fabric of Valladolid and his team took it to the letter, perhaps too much. The electric Villarreal that needed little to generate danger and transform it into goals of the first days did not just appear, and that the technician gave continuity to the eleven that had given him the first victory in Leganés, with the only novelty of Peña by Mario in the side

Gerard, who returned to appear overturned to the band, starred in the most dangerous of the yellows, including a goal annulled by the referee for prior lack of Catalan after a rejection of Masip shot by Cazorla. The offensive baggage, in any case, was poor for a team that retired to rest with a 65 percent possession. Building the game from the anchor that is Iborra in the core, Villarreal lacked verticality and spark. It influenced that Cazorla did not have the usual role and neither did everything that Moi Gómez used to come into play.

Cazorla, to the band

Valladolid, very well planted on the pitch with its two lines of four and Sandro and Sergi Guardiola biting up, did not put too much of his part when it came to cheering the game. Sergio's team was interested in the slow and drowsy pace in which the game was moving. Even so, the Pucelano team had a pair of dangerous arrivals that could put him ahead. Rubén Peña took the ball on the same line after a rejection of Asenjo shot by Óscar Plano. The goalkeeper also signed a good stop shot by Sandro on an invalidated play offside.

Calleja introduced a small tactical movement to start the second half, moving Cazorla to the band to get Gerard up. At the same time he sent to warm Ekambi, Chukwueze and Ontiveros, three players who have the imbalance that the game claimed to Villarreal and whose entry would end up being decisive. Earlier, fortune allied with Calleja's team in a counterattack that Sandro culminated with a shot that Pau's heel deflected to the post.

With Ekambi, Villarreal found breaking points like the one that the French-Cameroon threw to receive in the area and force a good intervention by Masip with a low shot. The entrance of Chukwueze gave him more nerve at a time when Valladolid was already beginning to suffer much more to stop the yellow arrivals and that of Ontiveros was the definitive push for the Castellón victory.

Forlan's record

The marbellí forced, after a wall with Ekambi, the maximum penalty that served to demolish the wall of Valladolid in a boarding school in the area that stopped Salisu in fault. He was asked by Gerard, who had in his hand to sign the best streak seeing the door of a Villarreal player - now guarded with Forlán - but Cazorla grabbed it to plant it at the penalty spot and adjust the ball to the post, making Masip's stretch useless in the right direction.

With the score against, Valladolid was not able to vary its initial script and ended up bowing the knee before an opponent who did not conform. The post prevented Rubén Peña's goal after splicing a rebound on the front of the area, but Ontiveros ended up signing the sentence by topping a Chukwueze's header to the second post.

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