Cristiano Ronaldo complicates Villarreal's pass to the second round

The Champions League is going uphill for a Villarreal who had the opportunity to leave his pass to the second round on track and who will now have to play it in Bergamo on the last day. With a script very similar to the one lived in Old Trafford, Manchester United survived in the game with

and decided with

umpteenth goal

against

team

, which again paid for its ineffectiveness at the time of seize your chances. The triumph of the

gives them the ticket for the qualifying rounds after the crisis that caused the dismissal of

.

first eleven

at United was not a great revolution.

The interim coach barely touched four pieces of the eleven of the disaster in Watford but it was striking that all were from midfield forward, as if the problem of the third most thrashed team in the Premier was not in defense.

A line in which, despite everything, David de Gea maintains the type.

The goalkeeper, who kept his team in the game with his interventions in the match on the second day at Old Trafford, once again emerged as the most solid value in the English defense.

If not for him, Villarreal would have gone to rest ahead on the scoreboard, the result of a first half in which it went from more to less but in which it had the best and practically only dangerous occasions.

Emery, no strikers

And this despite the fact that Emery surprised by leaving without pure forwards. Without

, with

limping and a

that has not just emerged, the Basque coach opted for a fickle attack in which

,

and

, causing

and

not to have a clear reference in the marking.

, the one who was reading the best way to break United's lines,

also dropped from time to time

. His was the first shot taken by De Gea, who also put in a good hand to deflect a shot from Trigueros.

Villarreal planned a slow game, circulating the ball and trying to get the English out of their den and then break with the speed of Danjuma and Yeremy, who also had his own in a shot that crashed into the side of the net.

Without

, one of the victims of Carrick's new ideas, it was difficult for United to have a leading role in the game and it was necessary to wait about half an hour for him to begin to appear timidly around the Castellón area. With

also out of the eleven, the new coach started Ronaldo on the left wing to leave the lead to

. A plan that he had to discard when he found out that

was too tough a

to crack for this Christian. The Portuguese ended up throwing himself towards the center, where he signed the only shot on goal for his team in the first half, a header too focused to give

problems

.

United gave the impression of not seeing with bad eyes a tie that left them the pass at the expense of the game against the Young Boys at Old Trafford.

Villarreal did not want to take excessive risks either, although it was the one that continued to insist the most on looking for the opposite goal, where De Gea was insurmountable.

The goalkeeper returned to save his team with a great hand to clear a shot from Trigueros.

Danjuma also tried with a shot that went up with everything in his favor.

Bruno Fernandes, decisive

Carrick's intervention in the middle of the second half, however, changed the game's script. Bruno Fernandes showed in just five minutes that doing without him is a luxury that Manchester United cannot afford. The Portuguese hoarded the ball from the moment he jumped onto the pitch and caused the balance of forces to change in the crash. His first big chance was born in a pass from him that broke the yellow defensive line to reach the feet of

, whose shot Rulli saved with a providential foot.

The goalkeeper was not so fine in the play that seriously complicates the survival of Villarreal in this Champions League.

With United pressing the exit of the Castellón, the Argentine risked playing short for a

pressured

that he could not control.

The ball fell to Ronaldo, who finished with a subtle Vaseline tight to the post.

The goal totally decomposed Emery's, whose changes did not have the desired effect, and United ended up sentencing by taking advantage of the gaps that Villarreal left behind.

Rulli avoided the second on a shot from Rashford, but could do little in another counterattack culminated by Sancho with a shot to the square.

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