Manchester United face Villarreal on Wednesday in the Europa League final. It’s a match Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side will be expected to win, but there’s a reasonable, and justified, growing confidence in Spain that El Submarino Amarillo may get their way.
Villarreal finished seventh in La Liga, so if they want to play in the Champions League next season then a victory is needed. Even that would be somewhat insignificant when compared to the relatively small club winning their first European trophy.
Fernando Roig is the club’s president and is very much liked by supporters, seen as something of a guardian of Villarreal’s history and the soul of the club. He obviously wants to be in Gdansk this week, but is currently isolating due to contracting Covid-19.
As for the actual match, Roig isn’t satisfied with his club getting to the final, and made it very clear that beating Manchester United is on the agenda: “We are not going to party in Gdansk, we are going to win and I know that in the dressing room there is a great dream to bring the cup home. But it is also a day to enjoy, whatever happens we must all be very proud of the team, the club, the city, the province: in short of Villarreal. Don’t give us up for defeated! I repeat: we are going there to win.”
Roig will just have to hope he can get a negative PCR test, otherwise he’s going to be watching from Spain.
