The new UEFA Europa League champion will be defined from the penalty spot! After an extension with few clear chances on both sides, and with a VAR check against a possible penalty in favor of Villarreal, the winner will be defined from the twelve steps. The goalkeepers enter the scene: Rulli on the one hand, De Gea on the other.
FULL TIME! LET'S GO TO THE PENALTIES IN GDANSK!
At Villarreal, Raba enters through Capoue.
Teller also enters for McTominay.
Change in the Red Devils. Mata enters, thinking about penalties, and Wan-Bissaka leaves.
The game will be decided on penalties apparently. We will have a few more heart-stopping minutes in the Gdansk final.
Three minutes are added.
Last minute of extra time! If the tie persists, we will have penalties.
And so does Tuanzebe for Bailly in the English team.
There is no penalty! Follow everything as it is in Gdansk, less than five minutes from fulfilling the regulation time.
James enters for Pogba at United.
There is a hand from Fred after Gerard Moreno's auction in the previous action.
Meanwhile, in the VAR they check a possible penalty action for Villarreal.
Cavani is yellow for protesting.
A pass from Gerard fails to control Alcácer in the area!
Rashford is thrown on the grass due to muscular discomfort. They come in to assist him.
Lindelöf's game was tremendous today as a passer. The United center-back made 116 passes tonight, 108 correct, more than any other player in the game, with 93.1% effectiveness.
THE SECOND TIME OF THE EXTENSION BEGINS! VILLARREAL 1-1 MANCHESTER UNITED!
1-1 on the scoreboard! Villarreal was more encouraged in attack in this first half of overtime, while United gave him possession at times, understanding that somehow he must generate spaces in the rear of the submarine.
END THE FIRST PART OF THE EXTENSION! THE TIE TO ONE IS KEPT!
They add a minute to this first part.
He comes out against United, but Capoue providential to cut the action!
Fists of De Gea! Corner for the submarine.
Free kick for Villarreal on the left side of the attack.
Change at United. Greenwood leaves and Fred enters.
Alcácer loses it, finishing high inside the area!
Shot into the stands by Alberto Moreno, who tries his luck from the left side of the area!
United give the ball to Villarreal, looking for the yellow team to leave spaces in the background.
Alcácer fails to finish well after receiving a filtered pass inside the area!
Long possession now of Villarreal, who seeks to associate in the United field.
Keep pushing United! It is difficult for Villarreal to get the ball into the opponent's field.
START THE EXTENSION! VILLARREAL 1-1 MANCHESTER UNITED!
30 more minutes are played in the final of the Europa League! United got the tie in the second half in Cavani's boots, and touched the second twice, with the Uruguayan himself and with Rashford, but there was no success for the English team. Villarreal little bothered De Gea in the second 45 minutes, to say nothing. We will see what the extension brings us.
FULL TIME! TIE TO ONE AND EXTRA IN GDANSK!
Pau Torres's shot in search of the squad! The ball goes high!
Three minutes are added. For now, there would be an extension.
Pogba's header too high!
The other is Mario Gaspar, who enters through Foyth.
Double change at Villarreal. The first is Alberto Moreno, who enters through Pedraza.
Rashford's shot wide deflected after the yellow defense cleared.
There is yellow for Foyth for the action. Hard infraction of the Argentine on Shaw.
There is a foul on Shaw on the left wing! Good set piece opportunity for United.
Bailly sees the second yellow of the match, the first in the English team.
Rashford's shot deflected low!
United press hard on the rival field. Villarreal is drowned.
Cavani fails to finish off a low cross from McTominay on the near post! There is a corner for the Red Devils.
Moi Gómez also enters for Manu Trigueros.
Sure enough, Alcacer enters the submarine. Yeremi Pino leaves.
De Gea will kick out of the door, when Paco Alcácer prepares to enter Villarreal.
Trigueros's shot that deflects into a rival and a new corner kick for Villarreal!
Corner for the Spanish team.
We are 1-1 in Gdansk! There are less than 20 minutes of regulation time remaining.
BLOCK PAU TORRES! Cavani heads a Shaw cross, but Pau Torres blocks the shot with his head on his way to goal!
Villarreal has not arrived in danger in attack so far in the second half.
RASHFORD HAS HAD IT! A very clear chance for United's '10', which fails in the definition, only against Rulli!
Set-piece option for United on the left side.
The dynamics of the first half are repeated. United pushes and Villarreal closes.
United footballers ask for a penalty again! This time for a supposed hand of Capoue.
Emery moves ranks. Coquelin enters Villarreal and Bacca leaves.
With this goal, Cavani becomes the third player aged 34 or over to score in a major European final for an English club, after Gary McAllister (36) for Liverpool in the UEFA Cup final against Alavés in 2000-01 and Didier Drogba (34) with Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2011-12.
There is a United goal! This is confirmed by the VAR.
MANCHESTER UNITED GOAL !!! GOAL FROM CAVANI! Villarreal 1-1 MANCHESTER UNITED! Cavani takes advantage of a bounced ball, after a shot from Rashford, to finish only in front of the goalkeeper!
McTominay's shot in the area that deflects into a rival! Corner for the English.
Capoue sees the first yellow of the match after knocking down Bruno Fernandes.
Clément Turpin consults with the VAR: No penalty!
United footballers ask for a penalty! Possible infringement by Pedraza on Greenwood within the area.
Little of Bruno Fernandes so far. The Portuguese failed to gravitate to the United game.
WHAT AN OCCASION FOR THE VILLARREAL! Pedraza's low center that Bacca fails to finish off in two halves, pressured by two rivals!
No changes at the moment on both benches. Unai Emery is 45 minutes away from winning his fourth Europa League, if the yellow advantage remains.
THE SECOND HALF BEGINS! VILLARREAL 1-0 MANCHESTER UNITED!
Albiol, with six balls cleared so far, has been a key player in the defense of the submarine.
Rest in Gdansk! Villarreal wins by the minimum on the break. Despite the sterile dominance of Manchester United, the submarine scored at 29 'in a set-piece action, with a cross by Parejo and a definition by Gerard Moreno against De Gea. Besides the goal, little to highlight from a first half between an English team that does not get clarity in attack and a Villarreal that resists with the eleven players on their field.
END THE FIRST PART! WIN THE VILLARREAL BY THE MINIMUM!
Corner for Villarreal.
Greenwood's dangerous cross that Albiol manages to deflect before Rulli gets the ball!
Two minutes are added.
United increasingly complicates the departure of the yellow team with the ball.
Villarreal is a compact 6-2-2 when it comes to defending, with Yeremi and Trigueros as second wingers, avoiding any leaked ball from the rival team.
Manchester's high pressure makes it difficult for the Spanish team to leave. We are 1-0 in 40 minutes.
United returns to stand with the ball in Villarreal's field. The yellow set holds up well in the background.
An interesting fact about Carlos Bacca is that the Colombian, who scored a double in the 2014-15 UEFA Europa League final with Sevilla, could become the first player to score in a major European final for two teams from the same country since Hernán Crespo (1998-99 UEFA Cup with Parma, 2004-05 UEFA Champions League with Milan). The Colombian would also be the first player to achieve it for two Spanish teams.
Villarreal looks comfortable on the field. United does not generate major inconveniences in attack so far.
Villarreal is ahead in its historic night! Gerard does it, scoring his seventh goal in this Europa League.
VILLARREAL GOAL !!! GOAL FROM GERARD MORENO! VILLARREAL 1-0 Manchester United! Parejo's free-kick cross that finds Gerard Moreno in the area, who ends up sweeping to beat De Gea!
United maintain possession after 28 minutes of play (63%), but each team has managed to finish off three times so far.
Yeremi Pino's deflected shot!
Fails to successfully control Cavani against Rulli, after a long and precise pass from Greenwood!
Great center of rabona de Bacca that heads high Pau Torres!
Pino's shot from the edge of the area that drifts into McTominay! Another corner for Villarreal.
New corner kick for the yellows!
Shaw's cross volley shot from the top of the box, but he goes off target!
A filtered pass to the area in search of Cavani, but the ball ends up in Rulli's hands!
United is planted in the rival field with the ball, but Villarreal retreats and closes the spaces very well.
Foyth plays with a bandage on his head but his nose continues to bleed. For now, the Argentine remains in the field.
Trigueros arrives only at the far post to finish off first, but the ball goes very high!
Corner now for Villarreal.
Neither of us wants to make mistakes. Little to highlight so far at the game level.
Everything ends in an offside of Pogba.
Corner for United, the first of the match.
Foyth stands up, blood pouring from his nose! The Argentine's head collided with Pogba's knee.
They assist Foyth, lying on the grass after a collision with Pogba.
McTominay shot from the edge of the area! The low shot is off target!
Cavani can't control a low center from the left! The defense of Villarreal has to be very attentive to the Uruguayan.
The first possessions are from Manchester United, which begins to look for spaces in the rival field.
We can already see Villarreal 4-4-2, with Trigueros and Pino on the wing. United, 4-2-3-1, with Cavani as the maximum offensive reference.
START THE PARTY! VILLARREAL AND MANCHESTER UNITED ARE NOW PLAYING! THE FINAL OF THE EUROPE LEAGUE 2020-21 IS NOW PLAYED!
The protagonists jump to the field! The Europa League anthem sounds!
The main referee tonight will be the French Clément Turpin. François Letexier will be at the VAR.
After massive losses against Wolves last Sunday, United come out tonight with an eleven that could be considered a gala in the Solskjaer team. With the losses of Maguire and Martial, Bailly comes out as a pair behind Lindelöf, while the attack will be led by Edison Cavani. The Uruguayan has scored five goals and provided two assists in just 247 minutes of Europa League football this season, averaging one goal or one assist every 35 minutes.
In addition to the already known loss of Iborra, Suma Chukwueze is another of the yellow footballers who will miss this European final. Unai Emery comes out with the same eleven that faced Real Madrid last Saturday, with the exception of Mario Gaspar on the right side, who today starts from the bench and leaves his place to Foyth. The Spanish coach is looking for his fourth Europa League tonight.
Let's remember that Villarreal not only plays the Europa League title tonight, but also a place in the next edition of the Champions League. In case of winning, the submarine would go to the top European competition next season and not to the Conference League.
Villarreal and Manchester United will meet for the fifth time in European competition, drawing 0-0 in their four previous matches in the UEFA Champions League, in the 2005-06 and 2008-09 seasons. Manchester United have faced Villarreal more times without scoring than any other rival in their history. On each of the last nine occasions that a Spanish team has faced an English rival in a European competition final (including Super Cups), the Spanish club has won the match. The last to lose was Alavés to Liverpool in the 2000-01 UEFA Cup (4-5).
United have just lost to Roma (2-3) in the semifinal second leg, which was their first defeat in the competition this season (5V 2E). Of the last five European finals played on neutral ground, the Red Devils have managed to take the title only once: the Europa League in 2017 against Ajax (2-0). However, the English team has accumulated four games without losing to Spanish rivals (3V 1E), since the elimination against Sevilla last season in the semi-finals of the Europa League (1-2).
Villarreal remains undefeated in this edition of the Europa League, with 12 wins and two draws to date. And it is that the yellow team has lost only matches of the last 26 in the competition (17V 7E), which meant the elimination in the quarterfinals against Valencia two seasons ago. Villarreal avoided defeat in both games against Arsenal in the semifinals (2-1 and 0-0), after having lost four of the five previous meetings against English rivals in European competition (1V).
Historic match for Villarreal! The submarine is contesting its first Europa League final, seeking its first continental title since 2004, when they secured their second Intertoto. Ahead is a Manchester United that has come from less to more in recent years and tonight has the possibility of getting his second Europa League, after the one achieved in 2017.
Manchester United will take the field with: De Gea – Wan-Bissaka, Lindelöf, Bailly, Shaw – McTominay, Pogba – Greenwood, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford – Cavani.
Let's go with the starting eleven at Stadion Energa in Gdansk! Villarreal comes out with: Rulli – Foyth, Albiol, Pau Torres, Pedraza – Yeremi Pino, Capoue, Parejo, Trigueros – Gerard Moreno and Bacca.
Good evening and welcome to the grand final of the UEFA Europa League, in which Villarreal and Manchester United will meet! We started!