Europe brings out the best of Villarreal, capable of

chaining eight games without winning in the league

and practically counting its games by victories in the continental competition.

The meeting in Kiev was no exception, where the team led by Unai Emery obtained a

great result (0-2) that allows them to set foot in the quarterfinals

.

It will have to be

ratified next Thursday at the Estadio de la Cerámica,

but the 0-2 score against Dinamo - the same score as in the first leg against Salzburg - invites optimism.

So does the image offered by the people of Castellón, who seem to transform when the rival does not speak Spanish.

The yellow team dispatched

a round match, sober in defense and effective in attack

, to minimize a rival who barely had options to make up a result that forces him to a feat next week.

Zabarnyi said in the previous one that there would be no individual marking on

Gerard Moreno, the footballer who makes the difference at this time at Villarreal.

Perhaps it would have been better for Mircea Lucescu's team to have paid more attention to the Catalan striker, who left without scoring but participated in both of his team's goals.

Villarreal was soon able to verify that their rival was not too comfortable in set pieces.

After three minutes, Trigueros had a frank shot, totally alone at the far post, after a rehearsed play from the corner but sent the ball out.

The goal came in another corner

that the Ukrainian team did not know how to manage.

After a first shot that was already taken by a defender under the sticks,

the ball fell to Gerard, who prolonged the far post for Pau to finish at will.

Emery himself celebrated the goal in a big way, aware of the importance of that goal away from home just at the moment when Villarreal began to have some difficulties.

The yellow team entered the game well, with a couple of warning shots and continually prowling the Bushchan area, although Dinamo did not take long to respond through Tsygankov, their franchise player.

There were doubts about the participation of the Ukrainian winger, injured last week and absent in his team's last game, but he started to strike on a right wing for which Dinamo insisted, also pushed by the additions of Kedziora.

Rodrigues was also trying on the left, although with more will than success.

The Luxembourgish

was about to knock out Rulli in a fortuitous action that ended with a stomp and

knee in the face of the Argentine goalkeeper,

who ended up recovering despite the momentary consequences that the blow left him and that were about to cost him a displeasure in a bad start.

Emery again used the 1-4-4-2 to fit Chukwueze

in the eleven although the sacrificed this time was not Trigueros but Moi Gómez, whose position the Talaverano occupied, dropping to the left.

The pause that the midfielder gives to Villarreal football did not come at all bad for him, this time he knew how to manage with a favorable score and took the game to his land.

Gerard asked for head as soon as he got ahead of the yellow and they knew how to play with it to keep a Dynamo at bay that they did not even allow to react.

Just in

case,

Emery's men opened a gap on the scoreboard shortly after starting the second half.

This time it was the other center-back, Albiol,

who took advantage of a Bushchan rebound from Gerard.

The second goal knocked the Ukrainian team out, which staggered onto the pitch and came close to landing a blow that would have knocked them out.

Just a minute later, Gerard had a hand in hand with the goalkeeper, who saved the third with his foot and also a shot from Trigueros shortly after.

Dinamo managed to recover but not enough to close the gap.

Tsyngakov was practically the only resource of the Ukrainians,

very well controlled by a serious Villarreal and who did not give up looking for the third in a counterattack.

The young Dinamo winger did not stop looking for the goal but his attempts never caught the goal and his team will prepare their luggage next week with the feeling that they have to climb a very high mountain if they want to be in the quarter-finals.

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