Villarreal have confirmed that they will offer Barcelona a guard of honour when they face them at Camp Nou on Wednesday.

There was a lot of controversy that emerged after Real Madrid denied giving the La Liga and Copa del Rey champions the guard of honour during the El Clasico on Sunday.

Gerard Pique did though have a nice reply to the whole idea, as he asked Barca’s staff members to give them a guard of honour after the game ended 2-2.

Villarreal though, contrary to Los Blancos, believe the achievements of Ernesto Valverde‘s men deserved to be acknowledged and hence will go ahead with the ‘pasillo’.

Apparently, this wouldn’t be the first time Villarreal will be giving Barca a guard of honour.

During the 2009/10 season, after the Blaugrana had won the Club World Cup, the Yellow Submarine had followed the tradition, and ironically their manager during that time was Valverde himself.