Gerard leads Villarreal's first win

First win of the season for Villarreal, who beat Eibar 2-1 in a game where the Basques took the lead, but in which Emery's men dominated in almost every phase.

In addition,

Very soon the first joy could come for Emery's.

In the third minute of the game, Chukwueze connected diagonally for Moi, who planted himself in front of Dmitrovic with the intention of dribbling him.

The Eibar goalkeeper knocked him down and the referee indicated the maximum penalty, however, the referee, who made his debut in the First Division with this match, changed his mind after a few seconds to indicate the offside marked by the linesman.

Just five minutes later, it would be

who had managed to score after a low center from Moi Gómez, although the Catalan forward received in an illegal position that did not escape the video refereeing.

These two actions only made it reflect the offensive supremacy of the Castellón team, which arrived on this second day without being able to count on Rubén Peña, injured in the last game, or Alberto Moreno, who still has a way to go in his injury from the left knee, although Emery could count on Conquelin who, together with Parejo, dominated the spinal cord as the match progressed.

The next protagonist was Asenjo, hovering around the twentieth minute, when solving a heads-up against Inui.

The Japanese endured the fight in the race with Mario Gaspar facilitated by a great control of the spur, although he was not fine to define in front of an Asenjo that covered well the gaps in what would be

Palencia

, throughout the first half.

With the same twenty-two protagonists, the

Gerard Moreno was able to capitalize on a prodigious pass from Chukwueze in the 46th minute, which Oliveira took a few centimeters from the goal line after the striker bit it off against the armored goalkeeper.

A minute later, Albiol, in the mouth of goal, could not guide well a center that boasted in hunting and that went for the right post of Dmitrovic, but Eibar recovered and in what way: in 49, in a break from Kike García, the visiting striker planted himself in front of an Asenjo who took too long to leave his domain to cover Kike's career, who, by dribbling, got away from the local goal and plugged in the first of Eibar, blurring the aggressive start of a Villarreal who was daunted in the following minutes.

In order not to lose rope, Emery looked for alternatives of offensive draft: Iborra, for Coquelin, and the brand new addition of Villarreal, Pervis Estupiñán, for Pedraza, entered the field in minute 57.

And there was an effect.

sent a cross to Chukwueze that, first of all, returned her to the center of the area, where Gerard was waiting.

With a backswing, the forward broke the waist of the central gunsmith to shoot cross,

.

The Catalan forward, in this way, returned to his appointment with the goal after having already scored on the first day.

In 69 the VAR acted again although, this time, to advance Villarreal: Paco Alcácer picked up a deep ball from Gerard and, with a strike that almost made him lose the ball,

The game endured the tendency of an offensive Villarreal and an Eibar who could not find himself after the Valencian goal despite the fact that Mendilibar reacted by removing four men almost immediately, but that he could do nothing to prevent the local victory that, with the goals from Gerard and Alcácer, Villarreal achieved the first victory of the 20/21 season.

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