Villarreal CF lost 3-2 in their Champions League debut, in a match played at the Westfalenstadion, home of Borussia Dortmund. This was the sixth tournament in which the Yellow Submarine participates in the Champions League.
Iñigo Pérez's team was superior for long periods of the game and even had Dortmund against the ropes, demonstrating good performance in the difficult German scenario.
However, errors in both areas condemned Villarreal. In the attacking area, the team squandered clear chances, while defensively they conceded goals that took advantage of those same errors.
The article concludes that in elite football, whoever does not take their chances and makes minimal errors ends up being punished, as happened to Villarreal in this European debut.
