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Pato scores as Villarreal lose at Monaco in Champions League playoff

Villarreal must overturn a one-goal deficit in Monaco if they are to reach the group stages having fallen to a 2-1 defeat at home.

It took just three minutes for 2004 runners-up Monaco to lead through a penalty from rumoured Manchester United target Fabinho.

Alexandre Pato, a loanee with Chelsea last term, equalised for the Yellow Submarines.

But Bernardo Silva claimed a winner for Monaco, who had Benjamin Mendy sent off.

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