Overview
- Villarreal lost 3-2 at La Ceramica and finished the group with one point from six matches, confirming their exit.
- Mohamed Elyounoussi opened early for Copenhagen before Santi Comesana and Tani Oluwaseyi briefly turned the tide, with Elias Achouri and then Andreas Cornelius deciding it late.
- Cornelius scored the winner in the 90th minute after a deflection left him a clear chance to beat goalkeeper Luiz Junior.
- Second-half changes from Marcelino — Ayoze Perez, Oluwaseyi and Ilias Akhomach — sparked a short-lived resurgence that could not mask defensive frailty.
- Villarreal started big-money attackers Nicolas Pepe, Alberto Moleiro, Georges Mikautadze and Tajon Buchanan, yet Marcelino lamented conceding soon after scoring and said he cannot explain the team’s European fragility compared with La Liga form.