It was played at the beginning of 2024, but due to the difference between both teams on the green it seems like a match from the 80s, when the Villarreal I was still walking to Second B while the Valencia He is now a regular in the First Division. The team that went through the ‘groguet submarine’, that no matter how hard it tries, cannot stay afloat this season. Not even with Marcellin, his third coach so far this season. Asturian returned to Mestalla with the pride of being the last coach to whom the Valencia He became champion (2019 Copa del Rey) and suffered a more painful defeat (3-1) that, no doubt, will invite the inhabitants of the offices of La Cerámica to go to the transfer market with the aim of correcting the course in the second half of the course.
Less than 4 minutes into the game had passed when the Ukrainian Yaremchukwho a few weeks ago seemed to have lost all his scoring instincts like the basketball players lost their virtues in the ‘Space Jam’ fiction, opened the scoring with an accurate shot after Like he was enabled on the spot. The assistant and captain is sweet, a footballer admired, and rightly so, from the stands. Mestalla.
Far from relaxing in the fact that they took the lead, Valencia continued to press and exploit the fact that the Villarreal, weakened by the defeat, He was at all times more than a bundle of nerves and a series of mistakes. And in the 27th minute, Pepeluwho will be called Don José Luis, made it 2-0 with the loss Jorgensen from the penalty spot. Later, in the 57th minute, the sequence was repeated but from the point eleven meters from the other goal, and with that 3-0 the match was more than seen as a verdict. Because then he woke up VillarrealYes, but it was too late and just enough for him to close the distance Gerard Morenoenabled by a Akhomach that before attending he showed the tricks he knew how to do with the ball.
Of the three added, the Valencia It now has 26 points and, although still far from sixth place, it can allow itself to dream of reaching the European places. He Villarrealfor his part, is only 19, and although thinking about relegation would be too alarmist, he needs to wake up so he doesn’t get into trouble.
| Valencia | Villarreal |
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3 |
1 |
| 25 Mr. Mamardashvili |
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13 F. Jörgensen |
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| twenty D. Foulquier |
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26 A. Altimira 78′ |
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| 3 C. Mosquera |
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(17 Kiko Femenía) |
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| 5 Gabriel Paulista |
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3 Raúl Albiol 17′ |
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| 14 José Gayà 78′ |
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(12 Eric Bailly) |
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| (twenty-one Jesus Vazquez) |
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5 Jorge Cuenca |
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| 23 Fran Perez 86′ |
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18 Alberto Moreno 78′ |
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| (22 Alberto Mari) |
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(14 Manu Trigueros) |
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| 6 Hugo Guillamon |
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6 AND. Capoue 65′ |
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| 18 Pepelu |
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(19 F. Coquelin) |
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| 7 Sergi Canós 69′ |
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10 Dani Parejo |
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| (16 Diego Lopez) |
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twenty Ramon Terrats |
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| 9 Hugo Duro 86′ |
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27 Ilias Akhomach |
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| (3. 4 Yarek) |
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7 Gerard Moreno |
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| 17 R. Yaremchuk 70′ |
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fifteen Morales 65′ |
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| (8 Javi Guerra) |
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(9 Ben Brereton) |
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The objectives:(1-0) R. Yaremchuk (4′), (2-0) Pepelu (27′), (3-0) Pepelu (57′), (3-1) Gerard Moreno (73′)
Cards:l Eric Bailly (37′), Dani Parejo (49′), É. Capoue (56′), José Gayà (63′), Diego López (74′), Ramon Terrats (80′)l
Referee: Jesus Gil Manzano
Spectators: 44,963 in Mestalla
| THE BEST The reliability of a team that Baraja worked for | |
| WORST Villarreal’s inability to live up to expectations |
Source: La Verdad
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