1-2: Warning from Nottingham Forest to Valencia: mistakes are paid

There are still two weeks before the League resumes with the visit of Villarreal, the Valencia of Gennaro Gattuso He suffered his first loss of the winter preseason on Friday. After beating Leeds under 21 and beating French Clermont with little trouble, this Friday, at the Mestalla and with a home crowd, they went down 2-1 against Nottingham Forestvictim of two rude mistakes of his.

Hugo Duro’s goal was not enough to compensate for the scorers Awoniyi Y Dennis for the English team. His goals strained a lackluster first act of the centennial celebration of Mestalla. The fact that their partners had to pay admission left the stadium half empty. Fifteen thousand tickets could have brought money to Valencia but they do not fill the image in a clash intended to be beautiful. To make matters worse, some fans of the English team caused incidents in the surrounding streets before the start of the match.

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Nottingham Forest

Valencia: Mamardashvili, Foulquier, Paulista, Cenk, Gayà, Nico, Ilaix, Almeida, Castillejo, Kluivert and Marcos André. Herrerín, Thierry, Cömert, Guillamón, Diakhaby, Vázquez, Lato, Hugo Duro, Pérez, Lino, Yunus, Cavani also played

Nottingham Forest: Henderson, Toffolo, Cook, Worrall, Lodi, Mangala, Yates, O’Brien, Gibbs White; Lingard and Awoniyi. Johnson, McKenna, Boly, Scorpa, Dennis, Badé, Surridge also played

The objectives: 0-1, m.40: Awoniyi. 1-1, m.58: Hugo Hard. 1-2, m.68: Dennis

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Committee of Madrid). He advised Cömert by locals and Cook, Mangala and Scorpa by visitors

Incidents: The Friendly match was played at the Mestalla stadium in front of around 15,000 spectators. Before the match, a tribute was paid to the historic players who played for the English team in 1961, 1965 and 1980, and a minute’s silence was observed in memory of Baltasar Alemany, who was Valencia’s manager in the 1970s.

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At the end of a first part where the Valencia He didn’t know how to lead the clash despite having several chances, one clash in between Nico Y paulista He recovered a dangerous ball and Mamardashvili’s bad start to try to solve the problem ended up making it worse and brought the first goal on the scoreboard.

After a complete change of the local eleven at halftime, the presence of the World Cup Hugo Guillamón Y Yunus Musah gave Valencia more consistency in the second half and as a result of that change and a good minute by youth squad player Fran Pérez, the local goal came through the boot of Hugo Hard.

But when the team was at its best, a loss of Thierry rendall Dennis was allowed to stand alone against Iago Herrerrin and beat him The goal caused damage to Valencia and the Basque goalkeeper had to work hard to prevent the third for the English team but also the goalkeeper for notthigamHenderson, deactivated the best option to restore the tie, the work of Jesús Vázquez.