Balaídos was spared the disappointment of watching your team lose in injury time. A blow that Celta fans had to assimilate through the screen of their televisions, the same ones that provided Villarreal fans with the first joy of this new normality in which football has entered. The yellow team took three points that fuel their dream of reaching Europe thanks to a goal by Trigueros in added time, which rewarded the superiority of the Castellón players against a very poor version of the team of Óscar García.

The new normal at Villarreal is very similar to the old. Cazorla is still the rudder that guides attacking football, Alcácer does not think twice about looking for goal and Gerard is a headache for opposing defenses. In Balaídos, Calleja opted to place the two forwards together in the area, causing the Catalan to leave the band where he used to function before the break. The yellow team came out with a classic 1-4-4-2 and with Cazorla and Moi occupying the bands, leaving the engine room for Iborra and Anguissa .

An approach that allowed Villarreal to be seen to be much superior to its rival in the first half although it was not able to capture it on the scoreboard. He did not do it, especially because of Rubén . The Celta goalkeeper signed two spectacular interventions that allowed the duel to come to rest as it had started. The first was to a shot by Iborra, after a good counterattack led by Moi Gómez and which ended with Mario's low pass to the area. He hit Moncada first but the goalkeeper from Pontevedra reached out to get a great hand. He did it again already in the added denying the goal to Gerard in a header adjusted to the post, although the referee invalidated the play. The first half ended with nine corner kicks for Villarreal and 63 percent possession for the Calleja team, led in Balaídos by Quique Álvarez due to the sanction of the Madrid coach.

From Celta, however, there was little news in the first 45 minutes. The good feelings that the team from Vigo had been leaving before the break and that had allowed him to poke his head out of the descent had not just appeared. The team of Oscar Garcia depended too much inspiration Rafinha , star of the most dangerous arrival of the celestial in the first half, a shot from the edge that was lost very close to the post. The Galician offensive trio, formed by Hernández, Mina and Aspas , was totally deactivated by a very solid Villarreal who barely made concessions.

The Celta coach wanted to change the decoration of the match with a double change to start the second half but it did not work. Beyond minimally reducing the dominance of the people of Castellón, the Vigo team failed to improve their poor image. In fact, he went to the locker room without having shot between the three sticks.

On the other hand, the modifications that Álvarez made worked for Villarreal. Both Bacca and Chukwueze and Trigueros would end up being decisive in the victory of the yellow team. All three participated in the decisive action, already in injury time. Before, the Colombian had had a very clear opportunity as a result of a counterattack that started the same in the center of the field and stretched to the area. The final blow, hand in hand with Rubén, was licking the post. Chukwueze had also stood before the Galician goal in another escapade in which the Nigerian showed his greater speed against the Celta centrals.

The scorer, however, was the unexpected Trigueros , who finished a long play full of rejections. Rubén saved Bacca's first attempt, which was followed by Chukwueze, also rejected. At the third, Trigueros struck from the side and his shot was deflected by a defender to make the ball sneak into the net over Rubén. A prize for the superiority and insistence of Villarreal.

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