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First Division - Day 37

Villarreal 4 - Rayo Vallecano 0

Villarreal: Juan Carlos; Mario, Musacchio, Gabriel, Jokic; Bruno (Jaume Costa 42‘), Manu Trigueros; Moi Gómez, Giovani (Jonathan Pereira 46’), Cani (Javier Aquino 17’); Uche. 4-2-3-1.
Rayo: Rubén; Arbilla, Gálvez, Borja López (Rat 14’), Nacho; Saúl Ñíguez, Trashorras; Rochina, Alberto Bueno, Iago Falqué; Larrivey. 4-2-3-1.

Goals:
1-0. 23. Uche. From close up after Musacchio played Giovani pass across goal.
2-0. 42. Bruno. Got on the end of Aquino cross to steer low shot wide of Rubén.
3-0. 55. Jonathan Pereira. Ran on to Musacchio pass to chip shot over keeper.
4-0. 64. Jaume Costa. Following up after Rubén pushed out Trigueros free kick.

Yellow cards: Trigueros 70’, Gálvez 81’ / red cards: Arbilla 63’.

Two matches with little or nothing at stake were brought forward to Saturday, Villarreal beating Rayo Vallecano 4-0 to strengthen their seventh place in the table. Rubén had to save from Giovani and Gabriel early on, and Giovani had a lob cleared off the line by a defender before Uche latched on to Musacchio’s square pass to open the scoring midway through the first half. Bruno made it two shortly before the break after Aquino crossed in from the right, and Pereira got a third after Gálvez failed to cut out Musacchio’s long pass some ten minutes in to the second half. Larrivey did test Juan Carlos for the first time soon afterwards, but Musacchio missed a sitter at the other end, and the visitors were left with ten men when Arbilla was sent off for bringing down Moi Gómez just outside of the area. Rubén failed to hold on to the resulting free kick from Manu Trigueros, allowing Jaume Costa to score an easy fourth, and Trigueros himself came close to a fifth when he rattled the crossbar from another free kick later on. A good result for Marcelino’s side, although they will want to improve on seventh position, which means they must play the early rounds of the Europa League competition. They do have a clear chance to do that though when they visit sixth placed Real Sociedad next weekend, depending of course on what Real do against Athletic Bilbao tomorrow.