"In the end time puts everyone in their place and this team does not get tired of working miracles, another one as a friend of mine would say," said Rodrigo at the end of the game that gave them the classification on the same lawn of Johan Cruyff Arena .

The last time Valencia set foot in the knockout stages of the Champions League was seven years ago and PSG ejected it without contemplation. That team of Unai Emery closed a stage and with it the options to sneak back into the best teams on the continent. Since then only twice has he returned to play the competition, already in the Lim era, and in no time could he overcome the first group stage. Neither Nuno nor Marcelino succeeded.

This year, in a group with Ajax , Chelsea and Lille and devastated by the tsunami of the dismissal of Asturian coach a few days after its release in Europe, Valencia has shaken the ghosts. He won at Stamford Bridge, contained the English team in a brilliant duel in Mestalla and, after falling with Ajax in Mestalla, he played everything on a card against the current semifinalist, with ten losses and the need to win . With everything against it, he achieved it with a goal from Rodrigo.

"The team is a big family, I am running out of words to define my teammates. These three seasons we have done incredible things and we have taken Valencia to places where I was not there for a long time," Rodrigo recalled, pointing out that they are capable of overcome "any adversity, institutional, medical or gaming," he said in statements to Movistar.

As happy as the scorer was Albert Celades . He opened with a victory in London, but he knew that part of his project was going to grab the eighths after having missed the occasion two weeks ago in Mestalla. "We knew we were going to have options and we wanted to take advantage of them. I am very proud of the effort of these players, I have a very good luck to work with them, because it has incredible values ​​and they overcome any difficulty, " the coach wanted to highlight. "We have ended up asking for the time, but we have also limited a very good team. The whole group stage has had much merit against two rivals such as Chelsea and Ajax. And these uncles are milk . It has been a deed that will be remembered, "said the technician.

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