Villarreal vs Napoli 3-1

Villarreal beat Napoli 3-1 at Estadio de la Cerámica, and Tani Oluwaseyi sealed it with the late goal after Napoli had briefly led. Amir Rrahmani put Napoli in front in the 8th minute, but Villarreal turned it around before half-time and finished the job in the 86th minute.

Napoli opened the scoring in the 8th minute through Amir Rrahmani. Villarreal levelled in the 23rd minute when Georges Mikautadze struck, then went ahead three minutes later through Álvaro Santiago Mouriño González, from a Gerard Moreno assist. That left Villarreal 2-1 Napoli at the interval.

Napoli made three changes in two windows early in the second half, with Noa Lang, Leonardo Spinazzola and David Neres all introduced by the 61st minute, but Villarreal kept the lead and then extended it. The home side made two changes on 63 minutes, with Tani Oluwaseyi and Alex Freeman coming on, and Oluwaseyi later sealed it in the 86th minute from an Ayoze Pérez assist, with Pérez having come on in the 83rd minute. Villarreal also brought on Juan Foyth on 68 minutes, while Napoli made two more changes on 72 minutes through Stanislav Lobotka and Lorenzo Lucca.

Villarreal had 52% of the possession and 492 passes to Napoli's 434. They also had more shots, 17 to 11, and more saves to make, 2 to 1. Napoli finished with the higher expected goals total, 1.94 to 1.38, while the corners were level at 4-4 and both sides were caught offside 3 times.

Georges Mikautadze and Nathan-Dylan Saliba were booked for Villarreal, while Napoli had three yellow cards for Giovane Santana Do Nascimento, Kevin De Bruyne and Giovanni Di Lorenzo. There were no red cards.