• Classification: This is the group H

Seven seasons without stepping on the knockout stages of the Champions League , too much time for a Valencia that wants to return to make room in Europe, but still does not know how to achieve it without disguising it as a feat. A victory against Chelsea would have given him the mathematical classification, but he could not pass the tie and now he needs to beat an Ajax that is not classified, an almost titanic task that comes with just resources.

Valencia arrives in Amsterdam to play its first final of the season with the post. The injuries leave Albert Celades without alternatives. Jaume Domenec h will get back under the sticks for the injury in Cillessen's twin, and Garay will lack the penalty for the penalty. The recovery of Mangala and Diakhaby , in addition to the reliability of Wass or Jaume Costa with a changed leg, leaves some room for choice. In the center of the field there is no alternative: Coquelin, Parejo, Soler and Ferran are the four owners. To complete the bench you have to look at the quarry with Esquerdo , and the youth Pablo Gosálbez . With Kangin, Cheryshev and Guedes injured , the left wing is still lame.

Defined attack

Rodrigo and Gameiro will entrust the attack, because Maxi Gómez has failed the twin in the last training and has not even traveled to Amsterdam.

It will not leave the party room for speculation. To be in the round of 16, Valencia needs the same result that Chelsea achieved against Lille of the Stamford Bridge. If Londoners win, the Dutch would be worth a draw. To Valencia, no. The defeat would leave the two out.

Celades has returned to see the 0-3 in Mestalla, "because there are things that can help us." In that duel his team failed a penalty, crashed into the sticks and was defeated. «The difference was in the definition. We know that we are going to have to make an almost perfect match, defend well, attack well and take advantage of our options. We know that before such a good team, with the automatisms and the style of Ajax, any mistake can penalize us ”, warned the Valencian coach, who regrets the losses he drags“ for the players themselves, who always want to play these games ”.

The game is so vital and economical - there are 12 million at stake - that the maximum shareholder, Peter Lim , will be in the stands of the Johan Cruyff Arena.

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