How Villarreal Became European Football’s Ever-Present Underdog

When Gerónimo Rulli saved a David de Gea penalty in the 2021 Europa League Final shoot-out, he etched perhaps the greatest underdog story in Spanish football history into the record books, putting his side into the pantheon of great European upsets. Villarreal had won a trophy they, quite frankly, had no right to win.  …