PSG dispatches Villarreal with an express win

PSG, an exquisite and different team from the first shot that they decide to send off the field near the rival area after the initial whistle, is a rival worked to the millimeter and very devious. A cold and precise executor who dances with the ball and punishes you for every mistake in a cruel way, as Villarreal discovered (0-6). There is no respite against Luis Enrique's admired team, undefeated in the Champions League since January 20, when they lost to Sporting de Portugal (2-1). Then came 14 games without tears and 10 victories, many of them as convincing as this one in La Cerámica.

Villarreal remained standing for eight minutes, having entered the field with appetite and a proposal, until Joao Neves found a dead ball in the area, after a corner kick, which he pushed into the net. Within three minutes he received the second stab after a terrible clearance with his foot by Gulácsi. And in two more, the finishing touch. Villarreal fell flat and not even a quarter of an hour had passed. PSG took advantage of the errors, with the third they made it 0-4, to, with order, always a lot of order, a motor as fine as the mechanism of a clock, shoot a couple of walls until finding a free finisher.

PSG punished every mistake by Villarreal, some very crude, who did not know what to do with an impossible match that still had 70 minutes left. A torture. The Parisian team was technically, tactically and physically superior. The Yellow Submarine could do nothing against an opponent who is a work of art and who, agitated by the diabolical Vitinha, does not stop moving, always with sense, in search of superiorities with which to subdue whoever is in front of him.

The clumsiness of Villarreal, an intimidated competitor whose ball was slipping from its feet, amplified the dominant profile of a team that is riding towards its third Champions League, a colossal challenge. Iñigo Pérez's eleven did not react. What can a gang do that has been beaten by a group of young people who have not even broken their hair and who did not miss a minute for two phenomena like Kvaratskhelia and Dembélé, who were injured. The fans dismissed their team with whistles at half-time.

Villarreal, the fans obliged, tried, at least, to be more aggressive in the second half. A matter of honor. Once again he had a plan, although it no longer served much purpose, but in five minutes Fabián Ruiz shattered it with the fifth of a painfully dark night for the hosts. There are no teams in the Champions League that can get the hang of Luis Enrique, who leads an undefeated, dazzling, scoring team (20 goals in four days). A work of art that everyone studies and no one manages to unravel or, at least, turn into a good copy. This time it was Villarreal's turn to suffer; when the game was over and he looked up, there were only a few thousand fans left in the stands.