Villarreal 2 - Dynamo Kiev 0

Villarreal: Reina; Javi Venta, Quique Alvarez, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Arruabarrena; Cazorla, Marcos Senna, Riquelme, Sorín (Héctor Font 82'); José Marí (Guayre 80'), Lucho Figueroa (Josico 60'). 4-4-2.
Dynamo: Shovkovskiy; Rodolfo, Gavrancic, Sablic, Nesmachniy (El Kaddouri 57'); Gusev, Yussuf, Leko (Cernat 52'); Diogo Rincón; Verpakovskis (Shatskikh 46'), Kleber. 4-4-2.

Goals:
1-0. 20. Figueroa. Got on the end of José Marí cross to head down past keeper.
2-0. 31. Cazorla. Took return pass from José Marí to chip shot over Shovkovskiy.

Villarreal had little trouble seeing off Dynamo Kiev, beating the Ukranains 2-0 to set up a fourth round tie with Valencia's conquerors Steaua Bucharest. After a 0-0 draw in the first leg, Pellegrini's side seemed to have everything tied up when they raced in to a two goal lead within the first half hour, Figueroa starting things off with a header from José Marí's cross and Cazorla taking a return pass from José Marí to chip keeper Shovkovskiy. Riquelme had been involved throughout up to then, having two penalty appeals turned down, and he almost got a third with a dipping free kick which the keeper just managed to tip over the bar. But three minutes before the break the Argentine midfielder was shown a second yellow card for kicking Kleber in retaliation for a hard tackle, and suddenly Villarreal were down to ten men.

With Riquelme off the field the free kick duties fell to Marcos Senna, and he too brought a fingertip save out of Shovkovskiy on the stroke of half time. But Dynamo came back after the restart, Kleber having a headed goal disallowed for a borderline offside, and Gavrancic hitting the post following a corner, Reina stopping Rincón's follow up shot on the line. The keeper also saved a long effort from Cernat as Jozsef Szabo threw everything forward, but the Spaniards took advantage and could have scored a third goal when Héctor Font and then Guayre failed to convert their chances on rapid breakaways.