Villarreal ended with many difficulties a deceptive win that gave them their first victory away in the Champions League in Bern since 2009. They beat the impetuous Young Boys thanks mainly to the scalpel of Yeremi Pino, who at 19 years old has become a reference of the team. Gripped by two isolated actions, Villarreal resisted against a tireless adversary and added three invaluable points to stay in the race for qualification. The Castellón team accumulates four points, the same as Atalanta, which fell to United, leaders of Group F with six.
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Von Ballmoos, Sandro Lauper, Ngoumo Ngamaleu, Mohamed Ali, Jordan Lefort (Silvan Hefti, min. 61), Alexandre Garcia, Michel Aebischer, Fassnacht (Felix Mambimbi, min. 89), Martins (Fabian Rieder, min. 69), Meschak Elia and Theoson Siebatcheu (Aka Wilfride Kanga, min. 69)
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Rulli, Juan Foyth, Albiol (Mandi, min. 82), Pau Torres, Yeremy Pino (Moi Gómez, min. 88), Capoue, Coquelin (Alberto Moreno, min. 69), Parejo, Alfonso Pedraza, Arnaut Danjuma (Chukwueze, min. 88) and Gerard Moreno
Goals 0-1 min. 5: Yeremy Pino. 0-2 min. 15: Gerard Moreno. 1-2 min. 76: Meschak Elia. 1-3 min. 87: Alberto Moreno. 1-4 min. 91: Chukwueze.
Referee Sergey Karasev
Yellow cards Michel Aebischer (min. 44) and Rulli (min. 86)
Buoyed by arrogance that goes with the rise of an overrated profession, many coaches have launched into systems overnight. One of the most striking fashions consists of alternating schemes of four to five defenses. This is one of the most stressful changes for defenders. But David Wagner, the Young Boys coach, acted as if automation were a reality and instead of managing a football team, he ran an automated assembly plant. Perhaps encouraged by Osasuna’s victory last Sunday, the German opened a 5-3-2 to try the same luck against Villarreal. With rapidly dire consequences.
The teams tested each other after listening to the Champions League anthem and discovered their limitations. Some orthopedic, imposed from the benches, others natural. Without the clairvoyant Trigueros, replaced by Coquelin in pursuit of the surveillance, Villarreal could not find ways to evolve clearly towards the rival field. On the other side, the Swiss team was crushed before the lack of coordination of centrals and midfielders to give the first pass. The players had not come out of the general perplexity when Pedraza received a harmless ball on the left wing, and without being intimidated by the distance to the area, he hung a cross at the far post. Wagner was supposed to have arranged an overcrowding of defenders there to prevent any accidents. Up to two defenders – Lefort and Garcia – had to mark Pino. Neither of them saw him coming when the canary threw the uncheck. Powerful and timely, he nodded decisively. The minute five passed and the 0-1 dynamited the Young Boys plan.
Neither Wagner nor his troops had come out of astonishment when the 0-2 fell. Again, from a center thrown on the left side of the field after a foul caused by the unbearable Pino. Parejo dumped it and Gerard Moreno headed it without anyone bothering him.
Faced with the evidence of the collapse, Wenger ordered his lanes, Ngamaleu and García, to establish themselves as wingers. It was enough that simple simple maneuver for the Swiss team to wake up and wake up their sleeping audience. More sheltered by companions that were offered to them, Fassnacht and Aebischer came into play and did the unthinkable. Suddenly, this team accommodated to racing and lack of control, responded with solvency to the lack of spaces. Pressured, Parejo and Albiol did not manage to lower the rhythm of the game.
Albiol, injured
Clear chances against Villarreal followed. First Fassnacht wasted the goal on a poor decision, then Aebischer slammed a shot into the crossbar, and Siebatcheu had another shot, Garcia from another and Ngamaelu from another. Rulli acquired an unexpected role in the whirlwind. Villarreal’s defense had already been widely overwhelmed when Wagner removed a center-back, a defensive pivot and a forward, and added two midfielders and a nine. The torrent dragged Villarreal when a long pass to the intrepid Elia opened the gap. Albiol overwhelmed in the turn, the Congolese attacker defined only against Rulli.
The bad news was piling up on the Spanish expedition when Albiol was forced to retreat after suffering a blow. Without their leader, Villarreal was suffocating in their area when at the end of regulation time a pass from the wise Gerard Moreno sent Danjuma and Alberto Moreno flying. The side riveted the counterattack and the 1-3 decompressed the game. The Young Boys had already given up when Chuckwueze made it 1-4 to the delight of Unai Emery, who was running through the band ready to hug anyone.
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