Villarreal has a date with history this Tuesday. The Champions League it is synonymous with glory and pressure. The biggest club competition in the world reaches the round of 16 and if, in addition in front you have a rival like Juventus the party takes even more magnitude.
Luckily, the yellow submarine already knows what it’s like to experience a meeting of this importance. The most recent case is the achievement of the Europe League last season with a final to remember against Man Utd. In fact, the Villarreal is playing this edition of the Champions League thanks to the title harvested last year.
Of course, the game most remembered by the yellow fans is the one that ended with a sporting tragedy against Arsenal from Henry on 2006. It was the semifinals of the Champions League and in the first leg the English had won 1-0. In the second leg, the team then led by Manuel Pellegrini was superior and was able to equalize with a penalty shot by Riquelme, but the Argentine missed probably the most important shot of his career.
That Arsenal ended up reaching the final against Barca and losing it 2-1 with goals from Samuel Eto’o and belletti, But that’s another story. The truth is that the Villarreal fight this Tuesday to allow himself to dream again of something similar to what happened that 2006. For this, the first stone on the road is Juventus Vlahović and company.