At the last minute, Valencia fell in Villamarín, but it could have been much earlier, because it only showed signs of visiting Seville. As if he didn't want to break a plate at a host's house, which he has enough with his own problems: at the bottom of the table, with a boiling harrow and a jig pushing the coach to the exit door. He did not rummage and was polite, so much that he left Betis to curdle one of the best games of a bitter season. [Narration and statistics]

Valencia continues to drag a slab attached to the ankles that weights every attempt to climb the steps in the classification: it is unable to find the balance . It is the most difficult value in football but without it every game a coin is thrown in the air. Before Betis, Cruz went out and Valencia ramplón. 25 shots conceded, with the sole mitigating of having the entire defense patched up , with a left-handed side in the right wing and a center that had not been on a field in official competition for nine months.

The best way not to make them suffer was to have the ball and look for Joel. Neither one nor the other. It is difficult to create occasions when 60% of the possession is of the rival and Parejo and Wass are unable to seize the command. Ferran had to do it , trying to gamble enough to find Rodrigo and Maxi.

The squad left Guardado and Alex Moreno seated to put a ball to Maxi Gomez to the point of the penalty of which the Uruguayan does not fail. Valencia, which until then had barely tried with a distant shot of Gayà, put the fear in the body of a Betis who, far from wrinkling, grew. Fekir had already tested Cillessen and Rudi had taught his players about where his opponent's Achilles heel was : on the right wing . If Valencia chose to protect itself, Ferran would disappear. And if they risked looking for their imbalance, Jaume Costa would suffer. Therefore, in addition to Alex Moreno, the Catalan coach sent there to fight Joaquin in his second youth. Rudi's vision gave them a draw when a long ball was hit by the lane and served to the veteran end to beat Cillessen from the heart of the area. That water leak would no longer close throughout the game.

It was the Dutch goal who prevented Betis from going to rest with the score in favor again bitter to Fekir . The verdiblanco domain no longer ceased.

With Garay's last minute leave due to discomfort and injuries to Kondogbia, Coquelin, Guedes, Cheryshev or Diakhaby, the Valencia bench does not allow revolutions , let alone looking at Wednesday's duel against Chelsea that can open the round of 16 and It would take 12 million euros to the coffers.

Valencia understood that he could not waste the little air he has left and dwarfed. Alex Moreno forced Cillessen to take out another saving hand and Rudi, brave, reinforced his attack with Borja Iglesias . Celades had already done it with Gameiro, the only spicy one that had been reserved. Even, only on the front, he had the opportunity to overtake his team again while Betis solved his own obstacles such as Sidnei's injury .

Without the ball, without control and without rage, the Valencians were at the mercy of the impetus that could be put on by the locals, who unleashed in the last ten minutes with a Chandelier bow and a shot from Fekir to the crossbar to which Kangin responded shortly after.

The sentence came to a standstill after the 90th minute. A foul by Gayà in the corner of the area was sent by Channels to Cillessen's squad without the Dutchman finding out . His hands had held Valencia, but his mistake condemned him when the tie was already taken for good.

Betis takes a breath that still does not look away from the bottom of the table and is beaten a Valencia that can not add the third consecutive victory and sharpen the European positions. He does not give the Celades team to face the League and think about the capital challenge that awaits him in Mestalla in search of a round of 16 of the Champions League that has not reached seven seasons.

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