Barça fell silent and emptied Mestalla to hold on to the Cup, like Madrid, Atlético and Real Sociedad, four teams that have discounted many points in the League. The tournament designed for surprises ends with predictable semifinals if attended to the rank of the classified, nothing to do with the last final ,. The King of the Tournament, in any case, is Barcelona, which celebrated its classification with a win in Mestalla. The Cup match was a copy of the League. The fluid and forceful football of the Barca shattered the defensive system of the substitutes of Valencia.
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Stole Dimitrievski, Jesús vázquez, Cristhian Mosquera, Mouctar Diakhaby (césar tárrega, min. Rez (Diego López, Min. 63), Sergi Canós (Iván jaime, min. 70), Pepelu Y Umar SADIQ (rafa mir, min. 70)
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Wojciech Szczesny, Eric García, Alejandro Balde (Gerard Martín, min. 45), Pau Cubarsí (Iñigo Martínez, min. 45), Jules Koundé (Héctor Fort, min. 78), Pedri (Dani Olmo, min. 63), Fermoín López, Frenkie de Jong, Ferran Torres, Lamine Yamal y Raphinha (Marc Casadó, min. 63)
Goals
0-1 min. 2: Ferrán Torres. 0-2 min. 16: Ferrán Torres. 0-3 min. 22: Fermín López. 0-4 min. 29: Ferrán Torres. 0-5 min. 58: Lamine Yamal
Referee Miguel Ángel Ortiz Arias
Yellow cards
Sadiq (min. 45), Francisco Martinez (min. 45)
Threatened as it is for the descent, but rather it seemed like a bad enemy for any of the favorites, and more when the fate of the tie was played at a game and in Mestalla. The fans did not talk about conquering a trophy but to win a game from competitiveness and emotionality against an antipathic rival like Barça, the same team that had interrupted precisely the optimism generated with the arrival on the bench of Carlos Corberán with 7- 1 embedded at the end of January in Montjuïc.
That game left such a good memory in the Barca ones that Flick again bet on a similar, topped alignment. He did not play Lewandowski, nor married, nor Araujo and Gavi is in the recovery phase of the coup suffered against Alavés. Reached with Pedri. To the Barca offensive, Corberán responded with a defensive formation, nothing to do with that of the last game, chaired by three centrals and a single tip: Sadiq. There was barely a headline on the court, the Mosquera Central, because Valencia is played by the next day against the Leganés.
Although the permanence in the league was compatible with the continuity in the Cup, by Pim Pam Pum for Barcelona despite the firm environmental load of Mestalla. No one doubted the motivation of their players, who jumped quickly in the pressure on the rear of Barcelona. The Barça, however, did not make them immut and, just as they already passed in the league, they marked both minutes, after Balde put a very good center for the arrival of Ferran, which won Yarek’s back in the area in the area and beat Dimitrievski.
The goal did not reduce the intensity of Valencia. Guillamón deserved the red card in an entrance to Pedri’s knee that the referee did not even punish the astonishment of the Barca ones, who recovered the thread of the act followed with a second so much of Ferran. The exvalencianista repeated with an unappealable shot after the goalkeeper’s foot and the stick rejected a lamine shot. Barça was again a vertical and resolutive team, unstoppable for a contario that ended up deranged, repetitive in faults, some very aggressive about Cubarsí and Pedri.
The match and the tie had been resolved with Fermín’s goals and again Ferran, the two enabled by Pedri’s precision. Fermín even bargain the goalkeeper in 0-3 and Ferran culminated in 0-4 a play devised by the Tenerife to which he gave an excellent continuity Raphinha. Although the party was lifeless with such a categorical result, Pedri decided to continue on the court as well as Lamine, author of the 0-5 in collaboration with Dimitrievski. The Barca ones felt so comfortable that Flick measured the changes a lot while Valencia did not stop falling into the off -game line thrown by Barça.
There was time anyway for Olmo’s return after Iñigo reappeared. Flick has where to choose for Sunday’s appointment in Seville. The Barça overflow confidence after rendering Mestalla with five goals after the seven of Montjuïc.
Right now it is difficult to remember a more overwhelming performance of the Barca in Valencia. Flick’s optimism contrasts with the regret of the Corberán team. Mestalla will not admit before the Leganés a ridiculous similar to that suffered before Barça.
