Last update 13 April, 2022 by Alberto Llopis
For the second time in its history, we will see the Villarreal en semifinales de la Champions League. The ‘groguet’ team, reigning champion of the Europa League, will play the semi-finals of the top European club competition after first eliminating an entire Juventus and beating Arsenal in the group stage, Atalanta and Manchester United. The previous time Villarreal played in the semifinals of the Champions League it was in the season 2005-06.
Villarreal in the Champions League semi-finals for the second time, in the previous, touched the glory
The previous time Villarreal appeared in the big European events of the Champions League, almost reached the final. In fact, he was one penalty away from at least trying to get it. What brown Juan Roman Riquelme in the then Madrigal stadium. It was the minute 87 and could have sent the game to extra time.
The rival was Arsenal who had won by 1-0 in the first leg in London and who would later play the Champions League final in Paris against Ronaldinho's Barça, Eto'o, Deco and a young Leo Messi who curiously would win the orejona with a goal from the Brazilian side Belletti.
Now, 16 years later, those from Villarreal will play a Champions League semifinal for the second time in their history with the hope of repeating the season's machado 2020-21 where they managed to win the Europa League. And it is that he Villarreal is an example of doing things well and one of The teams in Europe that have grown the most in recent years.
A generation of soccer players that will go down in history like that of 2006 trained by the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini but now in the hands of Unai Emery who follows his story as one of the best spanish coaches unfairly undervalued by many.