The Valencia. If on Thursday they reached the quarterfinals of the Cup, this Sunday they added their first victory in the League in seven games. A victory against Getafe (0-1) that came thanks to the goal of their captain, the criticized José Luis Gayá, and which is the first victory they have achieved outside of Mestalla this season. Valencia had not won at home since May. This is the present of this history.
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David Soria, Djené Dakonam, Domingos Duarte, Juan Iglesias, Diego Rico, Javi Muñoz (Alejandro Mestanza, min. 84), Mauro Arambarri, Adrián Liso (Juanmi, min. 71), Luis Milla, Martín Satriano and Mario Martín (Coba da Costa, min. 85)
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Stole Dimitrievski, Copete, Dimitri Foulquier, José Gayà, César Tárrega (Baptiste Santamaría, min. 29), Filip Ugrinic (Javi Guerra, min. 86), Luis Rioja, Pepelu, Arnaut Danjuma (Diego López, min. 60), Hugo Duro (Umar Sadiq, min. 60) y Lucas Beltrán (Rubén Iranzo, min. 86)
Goals
0-1 min. 83: Gaya
Referee Isidro Díaz de Mera Escuderos
yellow cards
Domingos Duarte (min. 50), Sadiq (min. 63), Adrián Liso (min. 67), Gayá (min. 80), Filip Ugrinic (min. 85), Corberán (min. 90)
red cards
Hugo Duro (min. 97)
The classification, the fears, the urgencies, marked this match. and that was seen when the ball was released, with zero risk. Nobody wanted unnecessary scares. They already had enough with their present. Two rivals who are too corseted. Although Getafe established itself a little more as the game grew. Luis Milla expanded his reign in the center of the field and opened the ball to the wings to search for the area, without too much danger, of course. Getafe likes to bombard the opponent’s area with crosses of all kinds. The fans do not dislike this style and celebrate in style every time their team forces a corner kick, the announcement of a new cross.
and, in attack, his game leaned, as every week, to the right. The team prefers Luis Rioja’s band to Danjuma’s, a fireworks winger who entertains more than solves. From the initial comfort, Carlos Coberán’s team began to suffer the push of Getafe with the impulse of the Coli fans. Valencia was not helped by the injury to César Tárrega, who arrived delicately and left after half an hour. Corberán preferred to delay Pepelu and put Santamaría in his place rather than take out a central defender like Cömert, who suffered great wear and tear at the Plantío, in Thursday’s Cup match. Their best chance was a bad clearance by Djené that hit David Soria’s crossbar.
The match resumed as it finished at half-time, with Getafe lurking in Dimitrievski’s area and waiting for a ruling, although the truth is that Bordalás’ team could not connect with the debutant Satriano nor Valencia with Hugo Duro, who was received at the Coliseum with insults and cries of traitor, and who did not take long to give up his place to Umar Sadiq, Valencia’s great hope right now.
The football was deteriorating in such a way that the game became a very dull duel. Both teams lacked punch. Nobody was intimidating. Two fighters without fists. Valencia had no fuel because Ugrinic couldn’t get into the game. The forward accused him. The pulse was so even that it seemed that the only way to break this balance was some spark of talent.
Corberán, who in recent weeks has clearly been able to govern his team again, was not worth it with so little. The Cheste coach removed the bench to go for the match. Valencia needed a victory to breathe a little. And then, with the game almost asleep, already in the last minutes, Ugrinic, a boy with very good footing, put a fantastic ball into the area for Gayá and the captain took advantage of it with an elegant touch over David Soria that put Valencia ahead. The winger, an emblem of Valencia, highly questioned this season for his own sake, scored a vital goal for his team.
