Villarreal knock Juventus out of Champions League

Villarreal reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday after inflicting an embarrassing 3-0 defeat on Juventus in Turin to go through 4-1 on aggregate. Penalties from Gerard Moreno and Arnaut Danjuma and Pau Torres’ tap in the last quarter of an hour were enough for Unai Emery’s well-organised side to see off the Italians at the Allianz Stadium and make Friday’s last-eight draw.

“It’s a magical night,” said Moreno to Movistar+. “We thought we could do it, we’ve always shown that in the big games we compete, the team gives its best… we all want to be in there with the best in Europe, we’re going to keep dreaming and we’re going to do it together.”

Italy are currently without a single representative in this season’s Champions League as it moves into its latter stages, clinical Villarreal beat a Serie A team at their own match.

“For the first 75 minutes we played well, we had chances in the first half. They put themselves behind the ball and only an episode like the one that happened could have changed the course of the match,” Allegri said to Amazon Prime.

“They had nine men behind the ball and they didn’t come out to counter-attack… Their intention was to take advantage of a piece of good fortune.”