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Villarreal is now a full member of European royalty.

In the first great final in its history, the yellow team tutored a great like Manchester United in an interminable match and finished him off from eleven meters.

In an infinite penalty shoot-out, no one missed until De Gea, whose shot, number 22, was stopped by Rulli, who was engulfed by a yellow avalanche.

The title is the well-deserved reward for the constant ascent of a club that has finally reached its peak but will surely seek higher heights. Hand in hand with Unai Emery, the great dominator of a tournament that he has already raised four times, Villarreal became eternal in Gdansk. As his motto was said, it was his moment, and he did not let it slip away.

United wanted to send in the final imposing their greatest physique, with high pressure that minimized Villarreal but did not pay off. It was a sterile possession that of the English, where the figure of Pogba stood out more, delayed to the double pivot, than that of Bruno Fernandes, the man who makes the difference this season in the English. The Portuguese was missing, lost in the tangle formed by the two lines of four very close together with which the yellows defended themselves, and in turn deactivated Cavani and Rashford, who signed the only shot on goal for his team before the break.

Without being able to deploy its best weapons and without being able to hunt down Manchester in any against, Emery's team, which came out with the expected eleven, managed at least to give some scare in the set pieces while it was gradually freeing itself from suffocation United initial. A header from Pau that went high after Bacca's rabona pass was the prelude to the goal, born in Parejo's exquisite boots. The Madrid native screwed a free kick to the heart of the area and Gerard managed to get rid of Lindelof's marking, with a grab included, and put his foot in to beat De Gea and sign his 30th goal with Villarreal this season, the seventh in the Europa League.

The yellows were knowing how to play with their heads and make the most of their resources against a very flat Manchester that did not seem capable of hitting the key to overwhelm a very supportive rival in the aid and that, of course, did not seem the rookie of the final, merit without a doubt of an Emery who knows very well how to handle in these situations.

The English tried above all with lateral centers taking advantage of the depth of their sides but between Albiol and Pau they managed to not reach Cavani.

The Uruguayan, however, doesn't need much to get his instincts out for a walk.

He had done well at Villarreal in the resumption but an unfortunate action allowed the English to re-balance the final.

Rashford hit from the edge and the touch in a defender left Rulli sold before a Cavani who caught the rebound to send to the network.

The tie emboldened a United that launched itself to culminate the comeback taking advantage of the fact that Bruno Fernandes was beginning to activate.

In turn, Emery made a move to protect himself against the barrage he anticipated from the English by sitting Bacca and reinforcing the spinal cord with Coquelin,

although it did not have much effect.

Solskjaer's team pushed more and more pushing down the left wing, where Shaw was already almost more of a winger than a winger.

A center of his was headed by Cavani but the shot was met by Pau's head.

Villarreal clung to its defense, the solvency of its centrals and the exercise of honor by Foyth, a starter despite coming out of an injury, to keep the pulse of a United that felt superior but could not prevent the game went to extra time.

Pau was about to shorten the final in the addition but the left-footed shot with which the squad sought went out.

Manchester came into overtime with all the changes to be made, which seemed to begin to take its toll on a physical level.

Villarreal, on the other hand, had refreshed its defense with the entry of Alberto Moreno and Mario and took a step forward, ensuring that the English were not so comfortable, pressing them higher and reaching the goal of De Gea, who would end up being the protagonist, despite himself, in the penalty shoot-out.

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