BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) – Villarreal turned the last workforce to achieve the (*16*) League knockout levels as Netherlands worldwide Arnaut Danjuma’s double helped them to a 3-2 win at Atalanta of their rearranged last Group F match on Thursday.
The recreation was scheduled to happen on Wednesday however was postponed on account of snow, and Villarreal wasted no time in placing themselves within the driving seat, with Danjuma racing clear to interrupt the impasse inside three minutes.
Atalanta had extra of the ball in Bergamo and mustered loads of makes an attempt at objective, however their wastefulness proved pricey as Etienne Capoue made it 2-0 three minutes earlier than their break.
The residence facet knew solely victory would do for them to seize the ultimate last-16 qualification spot within the group behind Manchester United, and got here out for the second half in all-out-attack mode.
Down the opposite finish, nevertheless, Danjuma appeared to place the end result past all doubt within the 51st minute with a nice objective on the flip, earlier than substitute Ruslan Malinovskiy rifled residence to present Atalanta hope 19 minutes from time.
Duvan Zapata scored once more for Atalanta with a well-taken objective, nevertheless it was not sufficient as Villarreal secured second spot, 4 factors forward of the Italian facet who go into the Europa League.
(Reporting by Peter Hall, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
