He Villarreal faces this Thursday Qarabag in Istanbul, on the second day of the first phase of the Europa League, in a duel that opposes two different streaks such as the eleven starts without losing for the Spanish team and the ten games without winning at home for the Azerbaijani team, which this time will not be able to play in their stadium due to the armed conflict with Armenia.
The Castellón team lost for the last time away from home in the group stage against Rapid Vienna, who won, by the minimum, 2-1 in the 2015-2016 season.
Since then, Villarreal has managed to chain eleven starts without knowing defeat and the balance has been three wins and eight draws.
The last three commitments, which he faced in his last participation in the 2018-2019 academic year, resulted in three draws: Spartak Moscow (3-3), Rapid Vienna and Glasgow Rangers (0-0 in both cases).
For their part, Qarabag achieved, for the last time, a home win in the 2016-2017 campaign when they beat Greek PAOK 2-0. Since then his record has been seven defeats and three draws between the Europa League and the Champions League.
In this time he has suffered goals such as the 1-6 that Sporting Lisbon endorsed him – Europa League 2018-2019 – or the 0-4 of Chelsea in the 2017-2018 Champions League.