Villarreal 1 - Deportivo La Coruña 1

Villarreal: Barbosa; Javi Venta, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Peña, Arruabarrena (Roger 75'); Marcos Senna (José Marí 75'), Tacchinardi, Sorín; Riquelme; Guille Franco, Diego Forlán (Héctor Font 85'). 4-3-1-2.
Deportivo: Molina; Manuel Pablo, Héctor, Coloccini, Capdevila; De Guzman, Sergio; Víctor (Romero 66'), Iago (Rubén Castro 59'), Munitis; Arizmendi (Xisco 81'). 4-2-3-1.

Team changes: Villarreal: Barbosa, Javi Venta, Peña, Marcos Senna, Sorín, Riquelme, Guille Franco for Viera, Josemi, Quique Alvarez, Josico, Cazorla, Guayre, Roger / Depor: De Guzman, Arizmendi for Duscher, Diego Tristán.

Goals:
0-1. 71. Sergio. Ran on to Munitis pass outside area to shoot low past keeper.
1-1. 74. Guille Franco. Got above defence to head Senna corner wide of keeper.

Villarreal and Deportivo began the last match of the weekend with a chance to move up to the European spots, but they cancelled each other out in a 1-1 draw which left both just outside of the top six.

The locals were on high after qualifying for the Champions League semi-finals midweek, and Pellegrini put out a similar line up to the one which beat Inter Milan, the only changes being the return of Gonzalo Rodríguez and Guille Franco, and the replacement of Viera by Barbosa, who needed to pick up match practise with his fellow keeper suspended for the upcoming first leg against Arsenal.

Both sides appeared nervous early on though, and the first chance didn't come until near to half time when Iago tested the young keeper, with Franco shooting wide at the other end soon afterwards. Things improved after the interval though, Molina doing well to close down Javi Venta and then keep out another effort from Riquelme.

Víctor had a penalty appeal turned down a few minutes later and Molina made another good save from Diego Forlán, but almost immediately the visitors took the lead when Munitis cross was deflected to Sergio for him to shoot low past Barbosa.

Just two minutes later though Franco got on the end of Senna's corner to head an equaliser, and the locals could have won it had Gonzalo not panicked in front of goal with José Marí steaming in alongside him. In the end though honours were shared leaving both more or less where they started from at the beginning of the weekend.