In a practically one-way game and where Valencia took advantage of Villarreal’s inertia with the ball, the club once again showed that it is much better than in recent seasons and beat Submarino Amarelo, in turn far from what has been seen in recent years, for 3-1.
Playing at home, Valencia have been absolutely insurmountable – they haven’t lost at the Mestalla since the end of September – and they soon showed that they wanted to continue that way. At 4′, Gaya was unmarked with a long ball on the left, took advantage of a poor approach from the defenders and served former Benfica player Yaremchuk for the opening goal of the match.
Submarino was asked for a response to this poor start to the match, but the truth is that Marcelino Toral’s men seemed completely haphazard and uninspired and Valencia’s simple processes were arriving perfectly to be on top and creating danger, until, At 27′, he benefited from a penalty and Pepelu, formerly of Vitória SC and Tondela, successfully converted.
The 1st half had seemed easy for a mature and efficient Valencia team and Villarreal even came back with a different attitude for the 2nd half – they had a goal disallowed at the end of the 1st half, to Morales, in one of the few quality moves they had, for offside -, which made it seem like we would have a more divided match, but a handball from Adrià Alti allowed Pepelu to make it 3-0, in the 57th minute.
In the first instance, Villarreal reacted well again and ended up managing to reduce it, in the 73rd minute, in a great individual play by Akhomach on the right, which left Gaya nailed to the ground with a great dribble in the middle of the area and assisted Gerard Moreno, but the The truth is that the pace dropped a lot after that 3-1 and Valencia took the opportunity to manage. In stoppage time, at 90+3, Pepelu almost completed the hat-trick with a great free kick, but Jorgensen made a great save and the result remained unchanged.
2024-01-02 22:34:00
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