Confident Villarreal face Manchester United in high-voltage Europa League final

KOLKATA: Villarreal CF overcame the odds to become the 11th La Liga club to reach an European final. The Yellow Submarine face Manchester United in the Europa League final.
Villarreal CF face Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League final on Wednesday, on the verge of a first trophy in club history.
The club’s achievement is incredible for so many reasons. The city of Vila-real has a population of just 50,000 people, which means that every resident could fit inside Arsenal’s stadium - the team they beat in the semi-finals – and leave 10,000 seats left over.Sadly, the supporters couldn’t attend the semi-final due to the coronavirus restrictions, but they were cheering on back home and setting off fireworks into the night sky in celebration at what is a historic night for Villarreal and for LaLiga.
Villarreal’s presence in the Europa League final means that seven of the past ten finals of this competition have had at least one La Liga Santander team competing for the prize, with the trophy coming back to Spain on all seven occasions.
Villarreal have already overcome all the odds to reach this point, playing a bold and winning brand of football that has made all those watching on forget about how small a club this really is by most metrics.
But they play like a big team and have a coach who knows what it takes to go all the way, with Unai Emery having won the Europa League with Sevilla on three occasions and also finishing as a runner-up in this competition once more when he was in charge of Arsenal.
“Dreams are free and I dream of winning a title with Villarreal,” Emery said at his introductory press conference when he was hired as the new coach of the club in the summer of 2020.
The Yellow Submarine are now one step away from completing their fairy tale.