Two years ago today, on January 29, 2023, the Valencia visit José Zorrilla with Gennaro Gattuso on a tight rope. After a promising start, the 2022 World Cup has completely stopped a good start. Two draws, two losses… and third in the last breath against Valladolid that dynamited the Italian project to reveal the ghosts of relegation.
After a short and fruitless pass by Voro González, the savior on so many occasions of this minimal Valencia who became Meriton, the figure of Ruben Barajaa legend as a club and in his arrival for the crucial second round, saved the most difficult ball of the match for Valencia since 1986, the year of the only relegation in their history.
Today, Valladolid once again presented the starting box for Valencia and also for Baraja. From that meeting, the Mestalla club found a mix of hope and even expectations of more with the arrival of Rubén Baraja who knows and knows the house, and not only saved Valencia from a dire situation, but last year led to a very fair Valencia in terms of numbers and quality to dream of Europe.
However, now the New José Zorrilla is for Baraja the last option to claim, again, a position that since Marcelino García Toral was fired by Peter Lim and Anil Murthy was ‘burned’ in Valencia and where none of Asturian successors had to last more than one season.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Valladolid coach has risked everything at home, yes, but he will do so without two of his biggest stars. José Luis Gayà, captain and symbol of this Valencia, not only will he not be able to compete in Valladolid but he has a small injury to his right ischium that will keep him out for the rest of 2024.
The same goes for Giorgi Mamardashvili, who has an injury to the rectus femoris of his right leg which means that on the day when Rubén Baraja plays it ‘all or nothing’, he will do so with a debutant goalkeeper in the Liga with Si Valencia is like Stole Dimitrievski, and has a very different eleven to his base eleven, with the doubt, in addition, to Dimitri Foulquier, who is gradually returning to training this week.
Source: La Verdad
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