Maribor 1 - Villarreal 1

Maribor: Ranilovic; Popovic, Vuksanovic, Cipot, Pokleka; Mihelic (Mujakovic 70'), Lungu, Rakic (Pregelj 57'), Tomazic (Zeba 46'); Zajc, Jelic. 4-4-2.
Villarreal: Viera; Javi Venta (Gonzalo Rodríguez 67'), Quique Alvarez, Peña, Alcantará (Marcos 67'); Josico, Tacchinardi; Cani (Jonathan Pereira 81'), Nihat, Pires; Diego Forlán. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
0-1. 85. Nihat. Drilled low shot past keeper after long ball headed back.
1-1. 89. Zjac. Ran on to shoot wide of Viera after clearance headed on.

Villarreal could only draw 1-1 in their second leg match against Maribor, a result which leaves them without European football this season. The Spaniards needed to overturn a 1-2 defeat from the first leg, but their opponents were more match fit and could have opened the scoring when Jelic forced Viera into a first class save late in the first half. Pires allowed himself to be closed down after rounding the keeper soon afterwards, and the visitors hit the bar with a deflected free kick soon after the restart. But Jelic should have scored a few minutes later and Villarreal found themselves with ten men when Tacchinardi was shown a second yellow card by over-zealous Swiss referee Carlos Bertolini ten minutes from the end.

Nihat did give Pellegrini's side hope when he drilled a long shot past Ranilovic with five minutes to go, but Gonzalo got himself sent off with a straight red, and a minute later Zajc ran on to beat Viera after a long clearance by the keeper was headed on. The game ended in uproar after Forlán became the third Villarreal player to be sent off in a bust up between the two sets of players, and the referee accidentally landed an uppercut on the chin of the goalscorer as he whipped the red card in to the air. A sad night all round, and Villarreal will now have to revise their pre-season plans.