Butarque is becoming a talisman stadium for Villarreal , which won its first victory of the season (0-3) in Leganés , just like last year. The yellow team again exhibited its arsenal while finding the security it had lacked behind, a winning combination against an opponent who still does not score.

Calleja was going around the way to find the exact point of balance between the punch of his team and his defensive fragility and found it regardless of the extremes. It had been speculated during the week with the possibility of Ontiveros taking the place off Chukwueze and in the end there was neither one nor the other. The Madrid coach chose to put Cazorla and Anguissa as interiors ahead of Iborra , located in the pivot. With Moi on the left, Gerard dropped to the right to compensate the team, leaving Bacca as the only reference.

The Colombian had the first great occasion of the duel, after staying hand in hand with Juan Soriano after a good pass from Gerard to the back of the defense, but the speed of Awaziem was enough to hinder the auction and make it go away.

The Leganés had had a couple of approaches taking advantage of the fact that Villarreal had not finished adjusting his new automatisms, but Asenjo solved them, the great and unexpected novelty in the eleven. The palentino showed that the substitution has not oxidized him and solved well a shot of Arnaiz from the front and another of Oscar to the half-turn, after a good action of En-Nesyri, before the Villarreal was advanced.

It was through Gerard , who is sweet in this league boot. The Catalan scored his fourth goal in as many days after lowering with his chest a great pass from Cazorla and hitting with his left foot adjusted to the stick. Villarreal did know this time to play with the score in favor, minimizing its rival, without going through trouble and arriving with danger. Soriano denied the goal to Bacca after a powerful header from the Colombian but could not stop the shot towards his own goal by his teammate Jonathan Silva, after a low center of Quintillà that Bacca and Cazorla were looking for.

Pellegrino changed his plan and came out in the second half with Guido Carrillo on tip looking for a more fixed reference in the area. The Leganés tried to find the Argentine with some centers in the area but it didn't help him much. Asenjo tackled without problem the only candid shot of the striker, who was barely reached again. The locals, who have only scored a goal in four days, exhibited a worrying lack of ideas when looking for the goal of a Villarreal very well planted on the pitch and with very clear ideas.

The people of Castellón, with the game on track, were looking for long possessions by moving the ball without risk. The goal was not so much to seek the rival goal as to deprive the Leganés of the ball, thus avoiding trouble in defense. With the game at the discount, a shot by Gerard deflected by a defender put the rubric on a round match of Catalan and Villarreal.

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