Europa League

Dinamo Minsk 1 - Villarreal 2

Minsk: Ignatovich; Begunov, Politevich, Bangura, El Monir; Premudrov, Voronkov (Korytko 73’); Adamovic (Vitus 67’), Udoji (Edigaryan 78’), Rassadkin; Beciraj. 4-2-3-1.
Villarreal: Barbosa; Rukavina, Mario Gaspar, Víctor Ruíz, Jokic; Manu Trigueros, Tomás Pina (Jonathan Dos Santos 62‘); Samuel, Nahuel (Soldado 46‘), Samu Castillejo (Denis Suárez 73‘); Bakambu. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 69. Vitus. Got on the end of Beciraj cross to turn shot in from close to goal.
1-1. 72. Soldado (penalty). After Voronkov fouled Samuel inside penalty area.
1-2. 86. Politevich (own goal). Deflected angled Soldado shot past own keeper.

Villarreal were expected to have things easy against the club at the bottom of their group, Dinamo Minsk, but in the end they had a few problems before coming back from behind late on to win 1-2. Although the team from Belarus had lost all three previous games without scoring a single goal, they limited their opponents to a couple of weak efforts from Bakambu and Jokic before the break. And with twenty minutes to go the locals took the lead, substitute Vitus turning a Beciraj cross past Barbosa soon after coming on. That woke Villarreal up though, and just three minutes later Samuel won a penalty off Voronkov which Soldado converted. After that Marcelino threw everything forward, and with four minutes left on the clock Soldado picked up a pass from Dos Santos and fired in a shot which took a wicked deflection off Politevich to enter the goal just inside Ignatovich’s near post. The Spaniards now only need a point from their next match against leaders Rapid Vienna to go through, although they will be looking for a win to give them a shot at finishing as group champions.