It already happened in the 2005-2006 season with the Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini, who managed a generation of players such as Alessio Tacchinardi, the Spanish-Brazilian Marcos Senna, the Argentine Juan Roman Riquelme and the Uruguayan Diego Forlan…
Villarreal, a club without history and with a past of nothing, founded on March 10, 1923 and that will celebrate its 100 years of existence next year, is in recent years on everyone’s lips, thanks to the magic of the Spanish technician Unai Emery Etxegoien (50 years), a very experienced coach who has already made the big European clubs shine in the Europa League and in the Ldc with a record of 4 titles with Fc Sevilla and another with Villarreal, last year. He does not have big stars at his disposal, but he has transformed average players to become sacred monsters like (Geronimo Rulli, Raul Albiol Torjada, Serge Aurier, Alberto Moreno, Juan Foyth, Etienne Capoue, Pau Torres, Daniel Parejo, Paco Alcacer, Giovani Lo Celso, Gerard Moreno, Samuel Chukwueze and especially Arnaut Danjuma, the 25-year-old Dutch striker, who is currently the club’s top scorer this season in the Ldc with already 6 goals.
For this second semi-final in the history of the yellow submarines, sixteen years after, against the English club of Liverpool, one of the contenders for the title, and which is in contention to win 4 trophies this season, Villareal Cf will have a lot to do to get rid of this great winning machine. But with Unai Emery, unbeatable with this club in the finals in European competitions, knockout (9 wins and 4 draws in 13 games), a hell of a performance, has already created a sensation by dismissing Juventus Turin in the eighth round and Bayern Munich in the quarters. Can they continue to beat the odds and make history against Liverpool, who beat Benfica Lisbon?