Villarreal – Olympique Lyon – On Thursday evening, we will find out all the passengers in the eighth final of the European League, as the first round of the knockout stage in the program of revans, where there were otherwise quite a few surprising results. So, French Lyon in his field came to a very valuable victory of 3: 1 over Spain’s Vilarreal, which again does not have to mean anything, because the popular “yellow submarine” is quite capable of compensating that minus in front of its fiery fans. Start: 22.02.2018. – 19:00 SEV
Villarreal
However, Villarreal’s main problem at this moment is a very poor form, so they have managed to win only one point in the last three pre-season appearances, and this is exactly the last weekend at Espanyol. Prior to that, they had two tied losses from Betis and Alves, and that was certainly a defeat against Lyon in the first match of the 16th European League finals, so that in turn they are certainly a huge challenge in front of them.
However, in the yellow submarine camp they believe they can make up for these two goals from Lyon, especially since they know that they always have great support from the stands at their stadium. As for the situation with the player, Callea coach rescheduled several standard champions against Espanyol, in order to make them more ready for this match with Lyon, while still needing to add that Fernandez, a stopwatch Semedo, midfielder B.Soriano and striker Sansone.
The likely starting line-up of Villarreal: Asenjo – Gaspar, Gonzalez, Ruiz, Costa – Hernandez, Trigueros – Raba, Fornals, R.Soriano – Bacca

Olympique Lyon
Unlike their rivals from Spain, Lyon footballers can be much more satisfied after their first European Cup qualifier, as they won a 3: 1 home win. Of course, this is a result that can be easily compensated, but on the other hand in the Lyon camp they hope that this anticipated offensive Villarreal will leave a lot more room for quick counterparts this time, and in what they are again real masters.
However, they have a lot of problems lately in the domestic championship, where after a series of three defeats and one draw, they are already fourth in the table, and at this point they have as many as six points less than Marseille and seven from Monaco. However, now all of their thoughts are focused on this match with Villarreal, in which case coach Genesio can count on all players except Marcala, who is suspended for cardboard.