Valencia de Baraja emerged from the crisis by returning to its beginnings

The defense of the goal, vertical football and high pressing are the hallmarks of Valencia of Ruben Baraja last season and they are the three main principles that the Valencian team adhered to in order to win the Girona at home, add the first success of the course and get out of the crisis.

Deck It is clear that his team will have to suffer a lot if they want to win against Gironaa group of Champions despite the fact that this Saturday he was not at his best level Mestalla, and within a week he asked his players to return to the bases of a Valencia who hardly suffered last season but who at the beginning of this season showed signs of fatigue.

If not Hugo Duro up, with one point from the first fifteen and up to twelve games without a win, the Valencia He first tried to close his goal and then find the match: “A clean sheet always gives you points and should be one of our signs. It’s not always easy, but you have to find it,” commented Baraja at the end of the match that brought his team back to the beginning.

However, even though they knew that the most important thing was to keep a clean sheet again for the first time this season, the team did not give up and, especially in the second half, started to be more aggressive after losing and decisively. From that high pressure came two goals of Valencia.

The two goals were born from two robberies in the rival field, a pressure that Valencia boosted the last course and that helped him score a lot of points thanks to the speed of Diego López, Fran Pérez and Hugo Duro and that in front of him Girona It happened again with the Asturian winger, Luis Rioja and also Dani Gomez.

“We have already seen the signs of the team’s identity. We fought wonderfully, there was energy, we looked for the game and we had the dose of luck needed to win,” insisted Baraja, who last year got Valencia kept a clean sheet thirteen times in 38 games.

For the Decktrained in Valencia with technicians such as Héctor Cúper, Rafa Benítez or Quique Sánchez Flores, That clean sheet continues to be Valencia’s greatest asset in every game, although his team still needs a lot of improvement in front of goal, as until this Saturday he had just three goals in five games and the purposes of Dani Gómez and Luis Rioja They arrived at the Juanpe detour at clearing time.

However, if the Valencia win Osasunawill add seven points, one more than they did against the same rivals last year, so if they achieve a victory, the Valencian team will emerge from a great crisis of results and say goodbye to a scary calendar to start the League. In any case, the rain was lighter today.