Villarreal 3 - Galatasaray 0

Villarreal: Reina; Belletti, Quique Alvarez, Coloccini, Arruabarrena (Javi Venta 45'); Battaglia, Josico; Víctor (Pedro Martí 79'), Riquelme, Roger (José Marí 65'); Sonny Anderson. 4-2-3-1.
Galatasaray: Mondragon; César Prates, Omer, Orhan, Ergun (Hasan Sas 73'); Suat, Petre, Batista, Murat Erdogan (Sabri 46'); Umit Karan (Necati 73'), Hakan Sukur. 4-4-2.

Goals:
1-0. 47. Anderson. Ran on to Riquelme pass and shot wide of Mondragon.
2-0. 52. Roger. Struck shot from halfway line which went in over head of keeper.
3-0. 89. Riquelme. Took short pass from Battaglia and scored from close up.

A great second half performance took Villarreal through to the fourth round in their first ever appearance in a European competition. Galatasaray needed to win after the 2-2 draw in Turkey last week, and they come out bravely, Batista striking the post with a spectacular shot midway through the first half and Umit Karan failing to convert a couple of chances. But the Spaniards recovered to put Mondragón's goal under pressure, with Riquelme going close, Arruabarrena having a goal disallowed as the ball had just run out of play in the build up and Víctor, Belletti and Bataglia all testing the keeper before the break.

The game swung Villarreal's way though when Sonny Anderson put his side ahead immediately after the restart after a pinpoint pass from Riquelme. Five minutes later Roger spotted the keeper off his line and struck an amazing shot from inside the centre circle which sailed over the top of everyone and in to the net to make it two. Víctor's side had been there before only a week ago, but this time there was no comeback (although if Karan had not been having an awful night things could have been different). And with the game as good as over, Battaglia won a tackle in the Turkish penalty area and left the ball on a plate for Riquelme to run it into the net for the final scoreline.