To live in the permanent need to storm the sky, Valencia has become accustomed. Too many epic nights in Mestalla of good memory, but excessive mistakes in an elusive competition like the Champions League, where he stays almost. Chelsea came out alive for the two balls that Maxi did not catch , for the penalty that Parejo fails and for the two times in which Rodrigo , in the added time, did not push Valencia to the round of 16, that ribbon has become a wall. Scalable, yes, but winning Ajax is a feat for a team that, although never gives up, remains far from its balance .

This Valencia has not stripped of the faith the thousand vicissitudes lived and the arrests that make it grow bigger still sparkle. When they hit him, he returns it. Do not dodge. He dives and does not let himself be knocked out, but they harm him . That was the almost unique thing that the English did, which forces Valencia to, like Sisyphus, keep pushing the stone to the top.

Very depleted by the casualties , it was difficult for them to enter a game whose importance weighed on the environment. Chelsea, with Jorginho in command, was able to move the ball waiting for where to find Pulisic or Abraham while Valencia looked for how to shake the complexes. In Maxi's boots was the solution, but the Uruguayan could not push both whips of Rodrigo and Parejo with Kepa already beaten. The Lampard team responded with a shot from Kanté and ran into a miraculous hand of Cillessen at the end of Abraham.

Blow and kick that was consumed with a goal from Soler that seemed to open the doors of a European sky that Kovacic slammed shut a minute later with a right hand stuck to the base of the post. And he still tried Cillessen again before going to the locker room.

Again he had to paddle to stop a very loose Chelsea, comfortable at many times, who despite losing his striker by injury saw the pass to eighths in his hand when the VAR gave validity to both Pulisic. Mestalla was enraged and with her his players. Resilient but lacking in fortune .

While Celades already thought about not sparing a single resource, Jorginho hunted Gayà in the area and Parejo planted for the fourth time in this Champions on the penalty spot. For the third time he failed , condemning his team to the epic.

With the incombustible Gayà and an incredible goal by Daniel Wass , Valencia overturned the field, surrounded Kepa and, keeping the cons of Batshuayi and Willian, sought to flip the score. Although Cillessen, which handball player, saved the best 'blue' attack to Lampard's despair, Rodrigo, on two occasions, was not able to close a victory that touched his fingertips. The condemnation of so much forgiveness is having to play a final in Amsterdam under conditions of extreme need and with the only consolation of relying on oneself with a corajudo team .

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