The Valencia The winter preseason ends on a bad note. The defeat suffered last week against Nottingham Forest after two crass defensive errors was no longer an isolated accident as the team from Gennaro Gattuso fell this Thursday in Paterna against AZ Alkmaar victim again of his own failures in the last line (1-3).
The Italian coach set up a clash that looked more like an official match and endured his starting eleven, a bit like the one he might have in a League game, until minute 70, when he completely changed it . But then the scoreboard already registered the last 1-3 and there was no way to move it or a penalty, because Hugo Guillamón one fails to discount.
It was barely ten minutes from the start when the central defenders, Cenk Özkacar and Gabriel Paulista, got into trouble when the ball came out and facilitated a steal from the promising Odgaard, who surrendered the Karlsson so he can score
The Valencia pressed to restore the equalizer, which reached the edge of the break after finishing Ilaix Moriba a cross from Dimitri Foulquier.
Almost as soon as he returned, a mistake by José Luis Gayà in a control allowed Odgaard to put his team forward again with a great goal. The third mistake was made by Paulista with a loan to Mamardashvili and this was it Karlsson took advantage of it.
After Gattuso changed his entire team with thirty minutes remaining, Fran Pérez’s impetus gave the locals a little boost, who at a corner found themselves with a few hands from the visiting defense and a penalty that might allow them to close the gap, although the shock is over. However, and with a bad game, Hugo Guillamón didn’t get it.
Source: La Verdad
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