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A goal by the visitor Dusan Vlahovic 34 seconds into the match added to a goal by Dani Parejo midway through the second On the other hand, they caused the tie in a level match that reserves without a clear favorite for the second leg in Turin the pass to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
The goals came in two of the few occasions of the game in which the defenses were in evidence, which, in general terms, surpassed the attackers in the match as a whole.
It was a match in which Villarreal was better in the first period , against a conservative rival, while after the restart, Juventus pressed higher, which made it difficult for the Castellón team to play offensively, although they were able to find an option to level the match.
The game opened with a goal by Vlahovic after a cross shot in which he did not give Rulli a chance and that In addition, he left the local team stunned, which did not re activated until more than ten minutes later.
In 13 the best local chance of the first period occurred with a shot from Lo Celso that hit the crossbar and three minutes later a backheel from Danjuma also created danger.
Both actions gave life to the locals who took possession of the ball and were able to playing close to the Italian team’s goal, although without creating any more danger throughout the first period against a team that was withdrawn and very organized in defence.
For this, Juventus had come out with three central defenders (Danilo , De Ligt and Alex Sandro) with Cuadrado on the right and De Sciglio on the left, thus weaving a very dense net so that Unai Emery’s players could not penetrate towards the Szczesny area.
The visiting team focused on covering up any gap and to go against it as quickly as possible. He achieved it in the first of his two goals, but not so much in the second, since his arrivals hardly existed.
Proof of it was that the local goalkeeper, Gero Rulli, did not have to stop any the ball throughout the first period.
The first shot of the second half was taken by Álvaro Morata and gave way to a phase of the game that changed little from that of the first half, after the entry of the experienced Bonucci in the axis of the foreign rear.
The main novelty was that Villarreal did not have as much possession of the ball as in the first period, which meant that the rival was looser and with a little more arrival than in the first half.
What did not change was the inability of one and the other to create danger against the opposing goal: after an hour of play, scoring chances were conspicuous by their absence, while the dominance of the Spanish team had diminished.
Juventus had not had any lapses in defence, when Parejo surprised from behind and scored after receiving a perfect pass from Capoue to establish a tie that apparently up to that point reflected the equality between both teams, although by this point in the second period, the local team had already regained the domain of the first.
The balance on the scoreboard gave a new bias to the match as a result of the new regulations on the double value of away goals, since a tie did not give Juventus more advantage for the return than to play at home.
Vlahovic, in the 85, created the only noteworthy action in the final stretch of the match, which ended with parity at stake and goals and that forces both to win in the second game to qualify.